AI is Great – But Is It Secure? MCP (Model Context Protocol) servers are the backbone of agentic AI. But researchers say that authentication is optional and nearly all of the nearly 2,000 MCP servers exposed to the Internet today do not require authentication or have access controls. What could possibly go wrong? To test […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is important to remember that the agency’s budget proposal is just that, a proposal, and Congress may or may not agree to it. So what is in the proposal? Whether Congress agrees with the agency or not is to be seen, but if they do, you can draw your own conclusion as to the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem faced intense questions from the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee. She wants to slash almost $500 million from the CISA budget. While the appropriations committee was looking at DHS’s funding across all of its agencies, they made a point of demanding more info on the administration’s financial plans for CISA. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, I am not sure that anyone in DC is actually fiddling, but they certainly are not doing much to solve the problem. A panel of policymakers at the RSA Conference in San Francisco this week were very clear on the threat. Salt Typhoon, a China-backed threat group, is particularly scary, having demonstrated uncanny skill in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Conceptually, that is hard to argue with. But, as businesses of all sizes and government agencies at all levels are being hacked daily, is the ‘less is more’ philosophy correct. One thing she went after is CISA’s work on misinformation and disinformation. This is a frequent complaint of some right wingers and to some extent, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump Threatens Zuckerberg With Life in Prison Trump said he is watching Zuckerberg and if he does anything illegal this time he will spend the rest of his life in prison. If I remember right, isn’t Trump the person who is railing about the administration weaponizing the Justice Department against political enemies. This sounds like […]
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