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Security News Update for Week Ending June 28, 2024

NYC’s Gotham Restaurant Forced to Close After Cyber Scam Hopefully they will be able to re-open, but for businesses, the law is much less forgiving. The ritzy Greenwich Village restaurant fell for a business email compromise attack that had it send its payroll money to what they thought was their payroll service’s “new” bank account. […]

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House Cancels Vote on Federal Privacy Bill

The American Privacy Rights Act bill has been contentious from the start. Businesses would definitely prefer a national privacy law replacing different laws in almost 20 states. They would also prefer a weak bill with no teeth and very minimal requirements for them to comply with. With the changes to the various drafts, many privacy […]

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Update on Los Angeles School District Massive Data Breach

Earlier this month the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) was hit by a cyber attack. The breach affected 24 million students and about 50,000 teachers. Now we are learning more about it. For students, the data includes: For teachers, similar data was breached but more teacher specific data. Part of the problem is that […]

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Security News Update for Week Ending June 21, 2024

Are You Prepared for Fifth Party Risk? Boeing and Airbus are in trouble, again. Except it is not them. Boeing and Airbus sell to airlines. Lets pick one at random – Delta. That is the first party. They buy their planes from, lets say, Airbus, a THIRD party. Both Boeing and Airbus use a FOURTH […]

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But it is to Protect the Children – and Hurt Everyone Else

The EU has proposed a bill that would require cloud providers to search for child sexual abuse material (AKA CSAM or Kiddie Porn) in all private communications, even end to end encrypted ones. EU lawmakers are divided on the wisdom of such a law, but the debate continues. Other critics of the plan are WhatsApp, […]

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Los Angeles School District to Ban Phones

The LA school board voted to enact a ban to take effect at the beginning of 2025. The resolution requires the board to develop a policy that prohibits smartphones and social media in the hope of helping kids reduce their mental health risks. The LA school district has close to 600,000 students across a thousand […]

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