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Weekly Security News for the Week Ending March 20, 2020

Senate Kicks the Can Down The Road Again With FISA Renewal Last week it looked like Congress was going to renew the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that DID EXPIRE last weekend.  But Congress being Congress, they didn’t.  On Monday the Senate agreed to kick the can down the  road for 77  days.  […]

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Security News for the Week Ending March 6, 2020

Let’s Encrypt Became Let’s Revoke and Then Let’s Confuse Let’s encrypt sent out an alert early this week that they were going to revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on March 4th.  That was going to happen because of a software bug on their part which meant that they possibly issued certificates when they should not […]

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5G Security Is a Mess and Banning Huawei WILL NOT Help

The President is right that cellular security is a problem, but not for the reason that he thinks – although that is a problem too. Researchers at Ruhr-Universität Bochum have discovered a way to compromise 4G cellular security – the cell service that almost all of us use now. It allows them to impersonate the […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 21, 2020

US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]

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