On Sunday the media reported that Zoom quietly changed it’s terms of service – last March. The operative changes includes these words: In a detailed perusal of the newly updated terms, two sections – 10.2 and 10.4 – stand out for their broad-ranging implications on how Zoom is permitted to utilize user data. These sections establish Zoom’s rights to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zelle is one of the most recent incarnations in peer to peer payments. Peer to peer payments are ones that allow you to directly transfer money from one person’s bank account (the sender) to another’s (the receiver). Competitors to Zelle include PayPal, Venmo, Popmoney and CashApp. The difference with Zelle is that it is owned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act Will Expire Every five or six years, section 702 of FISA expires. Congress continues to do this because it doesn’t trust the government to restrain itself. Section 702 enables limited bulk data surveillance which some constraints on viewing data of Americans vs. foreigners. In case you haven’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In light of the most recent Chinese attack on Azure, several people are speaking out. Amit Yoran, chairman of security firm Tenable, former president of RSA and former Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division director, says this in a LinkedIn post: Cloud providers have long espoused the shared responsibility model. That model is irretrievably broken […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since it seems that fully remote work and hybrid work are not going away anytime soon, we need to make sure that remote workers are secure. It is not going away because the best employees will find another job rather than be forced to come into the office. Forester Research says 68% of remote workers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the Pentagon grinds agonizingly slowly towards improved cybersecurity with CMMC, the hackers continue to make them look like amateurs. Congress doesn’t seem to be much help in the crisis. Last week the DoD Inspector General crucified the DoD’s operational units for doing a uniformly bad job at protecting Controlled Unclassified Information or CUI. Government […]
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