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Security News Bites for the Week Ending January 24th, 2025
This week’s news bites include: great AI tool with a large dose of Chinese propaganda and
censorship, Chinese behind massive SMS spam scams, president pardons Ross Ulbricht, founder of Silk Road, administration tells Democrats on intelligence oversight board to resign
and the war against Meta in Europe continues.
Read details here.
If you don’t have an effective data retention policy you could wind up in the same boat
that PowerSchool is in. They retained 40 years of student data from tens of millions of
students and it is all now available for sale. Consider whether the risk from keeping the
data is worth the value. Need help creating an effective data retention program – please
contact us.
Mitch
www.CyberCecurity.com
www.TurnkeyCybersecurityAndPrivacySolutions.com
[email protected]
Security News Bites for the Week Ending January 17th, 2025
This week’s news bites include Is TikTok for sale? Maybe, are all US mail cluster boxes keyed
the same, if you think China’s cybersecurity is better than ours – it is not, the Supremes killed
TikTok and federal contractors need to take special actions regarding the TikTok ban.
Read details here.
Check out the article in education above. Does your board, private or public, have the
knowledge it needs to perform its role as described by the partners at Alston & Bird? If
not or even if you think they just need a refresher, please contact us.
Mitch
www.CyberCecurity.com
www.TurnkeyCybersecurityAndPrivacySolutions.com
[email protected]
Security News Bites for the Week Ending January 10th, 2025
This week’s news bites include: New Orleans truck terrorist used Meta Ray-Bans to surveil
French Quarter, Oath Keepers and American Patriots III data released in insider attack, UN
passes flawed cybercrime treaty; US unlikely to ratify it, is DoD doing enough to protect
communications and license plate readers as a global surveillance tool.
Read details here.
The FBI has dramatically changed its position on encryption of communications. They
are now saying everything should be encrypted end-to-end. If you are wondering, based
on the recent Salt Typhoon attacks, whether your communications are safe, please
contact us.
Mitch
www.CyberCecurity.com
www.TurnkeyCybersecurityAndPrivacySolutions.com
[email protected]
Security News Bites for the Week Ending January 5th, 2025
This week’s news bites include: feds arrest US soldier in AT&T, Verizon+ hacks, AT&T, Verizon
say they finally removed Chinese hackers from their networks, Do Kwon, mastermind of
Terraform Labs $40 billion scam extradited to the US, vehicle borne attacks in New Orleans and
Las Vegas – are you liable and Chinese spies who hacked Treasury went after OFAC officials.
Read details here.
Given the recent attack on Treasury and a bunch of other recent attacks, are you sure
your supply chain is secure?
If you have to comply with CMMC, now is the time to kick your program into overdrive.
If you need help with either of these areas, please contact us.
Mitch
www.CyberCecurity.com
www.TurnkeyCybersecurityAndPrivacySolutions.com
[email protected]