Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Most people know about OpenAI’s ChatGPT, funded, in part, by a massive infusion of cash from Microsoft. People also are aware of the privacy concerns of GPT-type tools. In many cases, the damage is not intentional, but accidental. People submitting sensitive queries without thinking about it. Also, as more and more software incorporates GPT-tools under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Couple of Annoyed Redditors Launched Website to Anonymously Rate Your Landlord – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? While I understand why some folks might be annoyed at their landlord, how do you verify anything that is on the site? Until now there really hasn’t been a way to figure out whether a landlord treats […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No sane person can deny the allure of Generative Pre-trained Transformer AIs. Smart people are also concerned about the security risks they create. For example, if you use an AI to write code, could the AI include a back door? Or malware? How do you know without reviewing every line of code in detail? In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The world’s most advance industrial malware – malware that is designed to go after industrial control systems in places like power plants – called PIPEDREAM, may already have infiltrated some critical infrastructure control systems, waiting to unleash who knows what. Global business advisory firm Ankura said that they are concerned that PIPEDREAM cannot be stopped […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FTC revised the Standards for Safeguarding Customer Information aka the Safeguards Rule in 2021 and in about 7 weeks the changes become effective. The FTC updates this rule every 20 years or so to make sure that it is still state of the art. The new rule borrowed a lot from New York’s financial […]
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