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]In an effort to fortify our critical infrastructure security, CISA has a new program to enhance cyber resilience of participating partners using CISA’s advanced threat detection and monitoring capabilities. The program is called CyberSentry and it is designed to work across industries, in real time and monitor both traditional IT networks and those control or […]
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]The Securities and Exchange Commission is not happy with JP Morgan for accidentally deleting millions of emails related to it’s Chase Bank subsidiary. The company deleted something on the order of 47 million electronic communications records from almost 9,000 mailboxes covering the period January 1 to April 23, 2018. Many of these records were required […]
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