The saga of the Colonial Pipeline hack continues. Colonial says that there is fuel flowing through the pipeline again but it will take time to get all of the tributary lines operational. But more importantly, many sources are reporting that Colonial paid $5 million in cryptocurrency to the Russian hackers on Friday, contradicting earlier reports […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook Says: Give Us Your Data or Pay For Facebook That is a slight paraphrase, but not much. In light of Apple’s new requirement to ask users for their permission to steal their data, Facebook and others are mounting a full assault on their users. First of all, Facebook grossed $26 billion in the first […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Talk about a political football, oh my. Florida has passed a law outlawing them. Not sure that Florida is a bastion of privacy – just wants to stick it to certain folks. But, if some other state or other company requires it, the law is meaningless. Lets say, just making something up, that New York […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Tells Cellebrite to Back Off Signal is the encrypted message app created by white hat hacker Moxie Marlinspike and his team. Cellebrite is the Israeli company that cracks cells phones for law enforcement. Cellebrite claims to be able to crack Signals messages (it is not clear if they are breaking the crypto or have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]USTRANSCOM Starts CMMC Lite Now The DoD’s transportation command, the folks who are in charge of getting all the stuff that the military needs from where it is to where it needs to be, has announced that they are implementing a light version of CMMC NOW instead of waiting for the five years that it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As California and Virginia start rolling out their new privacy laws and Washington and Florida look like they will be next, what is the impact on businesses? Most companies are likely going to implement a strategy of this state is the most aggressive. Lets follow this one and we should be good for all the […]
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