Amazon added a new feature, very quietly (I wonder why – not) last year to some Ring products and some Echo products. Amazon Sidewalk takes some of your Internet bandwidth (a small amount) and lets your Ring/Echo enabled neighbors use it in case their Internet goes down (and vice versa). What could possibly go wrong. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The California Privacy Rights Act, CPRA, AKA Prop 24, was approved by voters on November 3rd. This is a continuing story on its potential impact. Some simple answers first: When does it go into effect: January 1, 2023. Who has to comply: That is still murky. There was a $25 million revenue minimum in CCPA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, gonna do some local humor. What bridges are these? The first one is the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island. The second one is the Tappan Zee Bridge between Tarrytown (NY) and Nyack. Neither of these are a bridge too far and both of which I have traveled over many times. But New […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a bit like the old question “are you still beating your spouse?” In order to answer that you would have to admit that you had been doing it previously. The NSA, as far as I know, hasn’t admitted to placing back doors in tech products but there is a lot of information that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Do you know the password to your spouse’s computer? What about his or her social media accounts? His or her email accounts? Not married, just friends, maybe with benefits – what about his or her passwords? We will get to work passwords in a minute. ExpressVPN asked 1,500 American adults in an exclusive but not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GAO Tells Treasury: Track Cyber Risk in Financial Sector The GAO told Treasury to work with Homeland Security to better track cyber risk in the financial sector. The GAO says that Treasury does not track efforts or prioritize them. The “sector specific” security plan was last updated in 2016 and, of course, most of the […]
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