White House Cyber Official to Depart Rob Knake, who served as deputy national cyber director for budget and policy and a key drafter of the National cyber strategy is leaving this week. Following Chris Inglis resignation a few months ago, this represents a problem in pushing the administration’s cyber strategy. Some lawmakers are supporting nominating […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is one place where it is already starting: debt collectors. That is not a fun job for anyone – neither the debt collector not the person they are trying to collect from. So, why not automate it. After all, if you can do that, you don’t have to pay any salaries or any commissions. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is a bit of an over statement, but basically true. You may remember the movie Catch Me If You Can where the star, Frank Abagnale played by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, led police on a chase that covered the globe and went on for years. Abagnale later became a police consultant in exchange for a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows the feds to spy on Americans – more on that in a later post – but there are rules regarding the spying on Americans. Most of the time the FBI and others follow these rules, but not always. The Act was passed after 9/11 but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Remind Folks that Money Stored in Fintech Platforms Like eBay are at Risk US consumers have billions of dollars stored on platforms like eBay, Venmo and a number of others. The feds want to remind you that if you do that, you are “self insuring”, meaning that maybe the platform will return your money […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just a few years ago all we worried about was hackers breaking into our servers in the computer room in the office. We expanded that footprint to include servers located in a data center space that we rented (also called a colo). Those were still servers that we owned. And patched – hopefully. Then we […]
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