More Countries Issue Travel Advisories for Travel to US The White House is trying to spin growing international concerns over travel to the U.S. in response to U.S. immigration and transgender rights policies, among other issues. Countries updating their advisories include New Zealand, Germany and the U.K, citing concerns over terrorism, civil unrest and stricter […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I always say, the reason we have so much cybercrime is that it really pays. Here is the “elevator pitch” version. Remember, this only represents the people who reported the crimes to the FBI. That means that this number is dramatically low. And, while the number of complaints reported year over year is up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Work from Home Security Considerations As your employees use their company issued laptop at home or at Starbucks, consider whether your security suite is still protecting them. For example, in the office they are behind your firewall (hopefully) and that adds a layer of protection that does not exist when they are working from home. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Companion bills in the Florida House and Senate would require social media companies to add backdoors to their security to allow law enforcement to eavesdrop on users’ conversations if they want to. SB 868 and HB 743 would require social media platforms to decrypt users’ data if asked to by law enforcement (it would require […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Downloads Soar After Signalgate While, possibly, the use of Signal in Washington may decrease, Signal says the number of downloads it is seeing is double the usual rate. Prior to Signalgate, Signal was already having a banner year, so this just makes it a double banner year. Maybe people think that if Signal is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US National Security Advisor Not So Good At Personal Security In light of “Signalgate”, reporters are looking for more breaches of security at the upper echelon of the president’s team. All of this is unclassified, but still sensitive. This includes National Security Advisor Waltz’s Venmo friend list (he has 328 friends), mobile phone numbers, email […]
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