This could get interesting. The Australian Telecommunications and other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 would require tech companies to decrypt communications on request and even require tech companies to build back doors into their software if they don’t already have them. Of course, like all governments (think GDPR), the bill does not stop […]
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No big surprise here really, but still disappointing. Researchers at Def Con last week reported that they had found 47 vulnerabilities in the firmware and default apps of 25 Android phones. When they talk firmware, I don’t think they really mean firmware. Rather, they mean the operating system like Android Oreo or Nougat, although it […]
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Lack of Vendor Cyber Risk Management Hurts over 750 Banks TCM Bank, a company that helps hundreds of small banks issue credit cards had a problem with their third party vendor – the bank’s fourth party vendor risk. The small bank wants to issue credit cards so they hire TCM and TCM hires someone else […]
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Health IT Security wrote an article beating up Amazon on it’s HIPAA compliance process. The article was not favorable and also interesting. The issue that they are talking about was a medic-alert style bracelet that someone bought on Amazon. After this person bought it, the vendor put a picture of it, with the lady’s name, […]
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For those companies who have customers in California – independent of where the company is located – or are doing business in Europe, you have new privacy regulations to deal with. While California’s law doesn’t go into effect for another 16 months and it is possible that there will be changes to the law before […]
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Given Russia’s and China’s seeming insatiable desire to know everything possible about us, it is reasonable that they would try and target the 2020 Census. Congress has been asking questions about the security of the Census process for the last several years and not getting any answers that they like. We are getting pretty close […]
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