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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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Security News Update for Week Ending June 14, 2024

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 […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending May 31, 2024

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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Senate to Narrow Scope of Secret Surveillance Law

Last month in a bit of a crazed hurry, Congress approved the renewal of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 came out of 9-11 and our lack of intelligence. I know you can’t use government and intelligence in the same paragraph without laughing, but stick with me. But Congress didn’t […]

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