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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) fined Residential Mortgage Services $1.5 million for not having a compliant cybersecurity program and, even worse, not telling the regulator that they had a breach. DFS said that RMS did not investigate the breach seriously, did not conduct a comprehensive risk assessment and did not notify […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Not a Good Week for Social Media Privacy After the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we saw terabytes of conversations and videos and profiles from the alt-right Twitter clone Parler posted online. Last week we saw 500+ million Facebook profiles for sale on the dark web (Facebook says this isn’t a breach) and […]
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