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Security News for the Week Ending November 22, 2019

Huawei Ban – Is It A National Security Issue or Bargaining Chip? Back in May, President Trump issued a ban on US companies buying from or selling to Huawei (see here).  Since then, the government has issued an extension to the ban 90 days at a time and the government just issued another extension.  They […]

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Security News For The Week Ending May 3, 2019

U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking.  The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]

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Why Paying Ransomware May Not Be A Great Idea

You may recall that a hacking group called the Dark Overlord hacked into Larson Studios, a third party provider to Netflix and other studios.  They stole the unreleased copies of the whole season of Orange as well as about 36 other series and movies. Now we are beginning to hear the back story and it […]

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Another Public Private Partnership Between Police and Hackers

A few days ago I wrote about a public-private partnership between the Russian spy folks and Russian hackers that was uncovered when the Feds indicted two hackers and two Russian spies.  In that case, the hackers gave the Russians the data that they wanted and kept and used the rest for themselves. Now there are […]

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