As companies continue to expand their use of third party providers, the issue of security also expands. A cloud database belonging to CU Solutions Group, a service provider to credit unions, was left unsecured. More on that in a minute. That would make them a third party service provider to credit unions. Except …….. When […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if yesterday’s deep fake post wasn’t enough to scare you, here is another one. Gartner says that attacks using AI-generated deepfakes to bypass facial biometrics will lead a third of organizations to doubt the adequacy of identity verification as standalone protections. Actually, this is good news because biometrics should ***ONLY*** be used to identify […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The feds are pushing pretty hard to get software makers to create and manage Software Bills of Materials or SBoMs. What the heck is an an SBoM anyway and why is it important. A very non-technical comparison would be the list of ingredients in packaged food. Let’s say you are allergic to some food, say […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Kemba Walden to Head new Paladin Cyber Research and Advocacy Institute After being passed over as the national cyber director, she is going to head up a new effort by cyber venture firm Paladin. Walden will serve as president of the new Paladin Global Institute, an organization Paladin said in a press release is designed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Governments around the world, at best, tolerate encryption. If they thought they could outlaw it, they would. Public pronouncements that it is “about the children” or other fairy tales not withstanding, it is about them not being able to snoop at will. That is something that they have been able to do pretty freely until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You Haven’t Migrated to WiFi 6 Yet? It is Already Obsolete. Here is WiFi 7 WiFi 7 or, officially, IEEE 802.11be is faster and more spectrum efficient that previous WiFi versions. WiFi 7, they say, is 3 times faster than either WiFi 5 or 6, which makes it useful for things like gaming apps. Of […]
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