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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 7, 2023

Twitter Limits Number of Tweets You Can See Per Day Due to – according to Twitter – an insane amount of data scraping, Twitter is limiting the number of posts an unverified (free) account can see to 1,000 per day; new unverified accounts are limited to 500 a day. Verified (paid) accounts are limited to […]

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TSA Wants to Expand Use of Facial Rec to Hundreds of Airports

The TSA is piloting the use of facial recognition to all 400+ airports they operate at within the next decade. The current pilot, at 25 airports, is supposedly voluntary, at least now, but likely people who are not familiar with the process will not think that it is voluntary. The process seems straight forward. YOU […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending June 30, 2023

Ex-FBI Employee Sentenced to 46 Months for Taking Classified Docs Home In a case similar to the one that an ex-president is facing, ex-FBI agent Kendra Kingsbury was sentenced on two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and the DoJ says that she removed 386 […]

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Will Apple Block UK Users From Apple Services?

Like other countries, UK politicians are wrestling with how to deal with encryption. After all, the U.S. has been dealing with it since they arrested Phil Zimmerman for creating PGP encryption and they haven’t resolved the issue either. The UK wants to, basically, ban end to end encryption in the name of “protecting the children”. […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending June 16, 2023

White House Cyber Official to Depart Rob Knake, who served as deputy national cyber director for budget and policy and a key drafter of the National cyber strategy is leaving this week. Following Chris Inglis resignation a few months ago, this represents a problem in pushing the administration’s cyber strategy. Some lawmakers are supporting nominating […]

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