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Security News Update for Week Ending July 19, 2024

AT&T is First Company To Evade SEC’s 4 Day Breach Disclosure No, they are not badasses, they asked for permission. The SEC rules that went into effect last year have a carve out from the disclosure rule – actually it is not an exception, just a delay. It is not clear who asked whom, but […]

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Security News for the Week Ending September 22, 2023

Dallas Mavericks Owner and Crypto Guru lost $1M to Scam Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who fancies himself a crypto guru just got a crypto wallet drained of about a million bucks. He says that he may have downloaded a fake version of a crypto wallet app. Oh, well, so now instead of being a […]

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Rackspace Hosted Exchange Still Offline Over ‘Security Issue’

In the face of a security incident that Rackspace is being very opaque about, Rackspace’s stock is down 15% today. Rackspace is still not providing much information about what the hell is going on. Thousands of Rackspace customers globally continue to deal with the outage, which Rackspace says is related to a security incident (whatever […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 4, 2022

Brussels Warns Musk That the Bird Must Fly By EU Rules in Europe The EU Commission warned Musk – via Twitter of course – that he will need to comply with EU’s Digital Services Act that goes into effect next month. It is the EU’s newest version of content moderation rules that may conflict with […]

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What Can the Nashville Bombing Teach Us?

The terrible events in Nashville will take a long time to recover from. The bomb, likely intentionally, severely damaged an AT&T “wire center” near downtown, shutting off AT&T service for millions of customers. This included some 911 call centers, cell phone users, land line customers, Internet service and even cable TV. Those 911 call centers […]

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The Cloud Adds New Security Risks

Yesterday’s double trouble outage should remind businesses that planning for outages and continuing to operate is not optional. The first outage was at Microsoft where it’s Active Directory services had some problems. Active Directory is used to “authenticate” users and services, so if it doesn’t work, not much else does. The good news is that […]

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