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Weekly Security News for the Week Ending March 20, 2020

Senate Kicks the Can Down The Road Again With FISA Renewal Last week it looked like Congress was going to renew the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that DID EXPIRE last weekend.  But Congress being Congress, they didn’t.  On Monday the Senate agreed to kick the can down the  road for 77  days.  […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 6, 2019

Caller Poses as CISA Rep in Extortion Scam Homeland Security’s CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency) says that they are aware of a scam where a caller pretends to be a CISA rep and claims to have knowledge of the potential victim’s questionable behavior.  The caller then attempts to extort the potential victim. CISA says […]

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Will Hackers Compromise the Census by Attacking Library Computers?

The U.S. Census wants people to respond online because it will save them money.  They don’t have to transfer data from paper forms and they don’t have to send census workers out.  From a pure finance standpoint, it makes perfect sense.  The census will cost us about $15 billion this time around. And, from a […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 12, 2019

FBI and DHS Raid State Driver’s License Database Photos The FBI and DHS/ICE have been obtaining millions of photos from state DMV driver’s license databases.  The FBI and DHS have do not feel that they have ask permission to do this. The FBI conducts 4,000  facial recognition searches a  month.  While the searches might be […]

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