Things are moving very quickly in the AI/Generative Pretrained Transformer (GPT) business. This is a super-competitive world between say Google, Microsoft, Meta, IBM and many others with – more to come. But there are still privacy laws to deal with and a court system that is ill-prepared to even fully understand the problem. There are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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”. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about how long it takes hackers to find “secrets” that are left accidentally (hopefully) exposed in the cloud. The answer was scarily short – as little as two minutes. This prompted one reader to ask “well how should I harden my cloud server”. Here are some tips. Most of the time […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Western Digital Blocks Unpatched Systems From Accessing Their Cloud Western Digital’s My Cloud software allows owners of Western Digital storage systems to synchronize their data with the WD cloud. A 9.8 score bug was discovered last year. As a way to “encourage” users to patch their systems, WD is blocking unpatched systems from accessing the […]
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