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But it is to Protect the Children – and Hurt Everyone Else

The EU has proposed a bill that would require cloud providers to search for child sexual abuse material (AKA CSAM or Kiddie Porn) in all private communications, even end to end encrypted ones. EU lawmakers are divided on the wisdom of such a law, but the debate continues. Other critics of the plan are WhatsApp, […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 22, 2023

Low Code/No Code Apps Not A Security Nirvana Just because the computer is generating much of the code does not mean the software doesn’t have bugs or is secure. In fact, since many times non-developers are using the tools, the code may be less secure. Details at The Hacker News As If Twitter Doesn’t Have […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending February 24, 2023

European Governments Want to be Able to Snoop on ALL of Our Communications As is usually the case, their excuse it that “it is to protect the children”. They want to break encryption while sprinkling magic fairy dust to not break encryption (an impossibility) in an effort to force kiddie porn traders (now called child […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 8th, 2022

ZuoRAT Hijacks SOHO Routers Researchers have found a multi-stage remote access trojan (RAT) being used against a wide range of small and home office routers in Europe and North America. The RAT has been active since 2020 according to the researchers. The malware exploits known vulnerabilities (which is why patching IoT devices and making sure […]

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I Remember When Apple Was A Privacy-Focused Company

Apple is about to announce a new feature. They are going to start scanning everyone’s iPhone for banned content. Seriously. It uses neural networks and machine learning, so I am sure it will be cool. According to respected cryptography professor Matthew Green, it is going to scan everyone’s devices for child porn (now referred to […]

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