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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump Tells Crypto Execs He Won’t Regulate Crypto if Re-elected Trump raised $12 million from crypto execs after he told them that if he is re-elected he would be the crypto-president and un/not regulate crypto. Telling people what they want to hear is always easy for politicians. He said that crypto is very important and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written about Microsoft’s “Recall” feature before. I guess, in a perfect world it might be a nice feature, but we don’t live in a perfect world. For those of you who are not familiar with this new feature, Recall takes screenshots of your computer every five seconds and keeps the data for three […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Say ChangeHealth Can File Breach Notice on Behalf of Doctors After All Changing your mind … is a federal agency’s prerogative, apparently. Normally under HIPAA, it is the doctor or hospital that has to file the breach notice and until this week, that was the fed’s (HHS) position for the ChangeHealth breach. However, smarter […]
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