About a year ago Suffolk County on Long Island in New York was taken out by a ransomware attack. It took months to get back online. So what did they do wrong? Pretty much everything. First, they had to find a scapegoat, so they fired their IT director. Did he do anything wrong? No. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Post Quantum Crypto Isn’t The Only Problem – Pre Stone Age Crypto is Also a Problem While some folks are worried about what is going to happen to encryption when quantum computing becomes real, other companies are still using antique crypto. Unfortunately, many of the companies who are using antiques are medical devices and higher […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Customs and Border protection signed a contract with LexisNexis Risk Solutions last year and it is scary both in terms of how much data they have access to and how cheap the cost is. Anyone is free to execute a similar contract at the company’s discretion as there are very limited laws anywhere prohibiting this. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]King Charles approved the Online Safety Act last month and its regulator, known as Ofcom, has already issued its first regulation in draft form. Among other “features” of this law is a requirement to scan end to end encrypted messages for CSAM, even though that is impossible. The act also requires platforms to execute a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The domestic intelligence chiefs of the “Fives Eyes” – Australia, Canada, US, New Zealand and UK – say that they are seeing a sharp rise in attempts by hostile states to steal intellectual property. The intelligence chiefs spoke at an event hosted by Stanford University’s Hoover Institution. This is a little different that what the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may remember a few months ago that Elon said it was very important to put a pause on AI until we could figure out how to do that safely. I guess he has figured that out. Say hello to GROK. Grok, according to the dictionary, means “understand (something) intuitively or by empathy”. While other […]
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