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Security News for the Week Ending March 12, 2021

Encrypted Phone Firm Sky ECC “Hacked” by Police Police have arrested 48 people and confiscated 14 tons of Cocaine and over a million Euros, after decrypting a half billion messages and listening in on the bad guys for several weeks. The phone company said that they don’t think the encryption was cracked, but rather, they […]

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Congress Digs into Dumpster Fire of Fed Cybersecurity

While there are plenty of private companies that were compromised by the SolarWinds attack, more importantly, many federal government departments and agencies including Treasury, State, the Nuclear Management folks, the FAA and others were compromised and information was stolen. Congress is getting into the act; we will see if anything positive happens or Congress loses […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 26, 2021

DoD Working on CMMC-Fedramp ‘Reciprocity’ by Year End CMMC, the DoD’s new cybersecurity standard is designed to measure security practices of companies and the servers in the computer rooms and data centers. But what about the stuff in the cloud. That is covered by another government standard called FedRAMP. But those two standards have different […]

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New York Issues Cyber Insurance Framework

Early this month, New York’s Department of Financial Services, the regulator for banks and insurance companies, issued guidance on cybersecurity insurance. Unfortunately, the guidance was not to insurance customers; it was for insurance companies. The regulator is concerned that big breaches may cause insurance companies to go out of business. DFS advised insurers against paying […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 19, 2021

Parler is Back Online After being down for a month after getting kicked off Amazon, Parler is back online. Existing accounts can log in now; new accounts can be created next week. They have a new interim CEO after the board fired the last one. It does not appear that old content was moved over […]

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