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Security News for the Week Ending December 3, 2021

Australia Proposes Law To Force Online Platforms to Disclose User Info Australia plans to introduce legislation that will force social media companies to either take down posts that people don’t like or hand over their user’s information. This isn’t law yet, but I can easily see how this will be gamed. This comes in the […]

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MI-6 Follows CIA, Just 22 Years Late

Why? Quantum Computing and Artificial Intelligence! For those of you who are not familiar with MI-6, even via a somewhat romanticized version in James Bond movies, MI-6 is Britain’s spy agency. Working along MI-5 and GCHQ, their goal is to protect Britain from the bad guys. MI-6, similar to our CIA, prefers to stay in […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 26, 2021

Tesla Locks Owners Out of Cars – On Accident Hundreds of Tesla owners got locked out of their cars when a server that powers the Tesla app crashed due to load. Apparently those owners forgot there is such a thing as a car key. The outage lasted about 5 hours and Elon Musk later tweeted […]

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China Charts Plan for Tech Self-Sufficiency

China’s policymaking body, the Central Comprehensively Deepening Reforms Commission (I did not make up this name) approved a plan yesterday for developing home grown science and technology with an eye toward self-sufficiency. According to a press release by the state run news agency, Xi said that while China has made substantial progress in trying to […]

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2020 Election Audits Costing Millions but Not in the Way You Think

Arizona’s Republican led state Senate hired Cyber Ninjas to review the election results for Maricopa County. Unfortunately, these ninjas had no experience doing election audits and, apparently, not much experience doing any kind of forensic investigating. They did not maintain custody of the equipment, they did not maintain surveillance on the equipment and they allowed […]

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