NSA Director General Paul Nakasone testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacks. He said that foreign hackers are taking advantage of the Intelligence community’s blind spot – adversaries working INSIDE the United States. Our adversaries can come into the United States, set up shop on the web, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CCPA went into effect just over a year ago. Now we have some history on it. DataGrail is a vendor that helps companies like OVERSTOCK and OKTA respond to those CCPA requests. They have fulfilled millions of “data subject requests” for their clients. Here is what they found. 46% of the requests were to tell […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, let me just say this at the beginning. This post is opinion. There is certainly factual information (or the closest to fact that we have), but in the end, this is just my opinion. Currently, most cyber breaches are not reported. Even when breaches are reported, they are often missing key information, hard to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While 3G and 4G cell tech have their own well known security issues, so does 5G, including the recently announced 5G network slicing security issues (see here). But this is probably not the big concern for 5G security. The hype around 5G is that we can use it for everything and anything. And we probably […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Net neutrality seems to be a politically charged concept. I am not sure why. All net neutrality says is that you have to treat all content providers equally. AT&T, apparently, doesn’t like that and so they are making up stories that have nothing to do with the truth. After the Trump FCC decided that they […]
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