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Security News for the Week Ending April 21, 2023

Arkansas Becomes First State to Ban Minors from Social Media Without Parental Permission It is now illegal for anyone in Arkansas to be on social media without parental permission if they are under 18. Do you think this will actually stop anyone? If you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale. […]

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Advanced Industrial Malware Could be Inside Our Critical Infrastructure

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 […]

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Google’s CISO Says Boards, CEOs Need to Ask These Questions

Cybersecurity and privacy are a key pillar of every company’s risk governance program – or at least should be. Alicja Cade, Director, Financial Services, Office of the CISO, Google Cloud suggests some questions Boards and CEOs should be asking about the company’s cybersecurity program. Here are some questions that she is recommending the Board gets […]

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Financial Institutions Have 7 Weeks Until New FTC Safeguards Rule Becomes Effective

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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Security News Update for April 14, 2023

Tech Industry Pain Good for NSA Rob Joyce, NSA’s cyber director, says that they are seeing a boost in recruitment following waves of layoffs in the tech sector. While he is not giving numbers, any help with mid and high level recruiting would be good for the good guys. Remember that due to the clearance […]

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Battling Insider Threat – The Leak of US Intel Docs

Today the FBI arrested the person they say leaked hundreds of classified documents on US surveillance related to the war in Ukraine. The impact of this leak may rise to the level of the damage caused by Edward Snowden in 2013. They continue to find more classified documents as the investigation continues. What is different […]

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