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Your Carmaker May Be Selling Your Driving Data to Your Insurance Company

One thing about a country that has no federal privacy law – There are very few limits on what someone can do with data that they have legally collected. The legal part is that you agreed to allowi your “smart car” to collect your driving data. That data may include things like your speed and […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 8, 2023

US Warns That Iran Terrorists Broke into Multiple US Water Facilities Last week I reported that the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Water Authority fessed up to the fact that hackers successfully broke into their network, compromising a pump station, using a vulnerability in an Israeli OT network system that is repackaged by multiple vendors. Now the FBI, […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 7, 2023

Twitter Limits Number of Tweets You Can See Per Day Due to – according to Twitter – an insane amount of data scraping, Twitter is limiting the number of posts an unverified (free) account can see to 1,000 per day; new unverified accounts are limited to 500 a day. Verified (paid) accounts are limited to […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 28, 2021

The UK Might Beat Us to Regulating MSPs In the US, anyone can become a managed service provider. Unfortunately, customers may think that comes with security, but usually it does not. The UK is about to create a legally binding cybersecurity framework for managed service providers. This may be the first step at forcing businesses […]

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100 Million Devices Vulnerable and Likely Never Patched

What could go wrong? As we rush headlong to deploy billions of Internet of Things devices with no regard to security, that doesn’t make security problems go away. Security researchers today disclosed nine vulnerabilities affecting implementations of the Domain Name System protocol in popular TCP/IP network communication stacks running on at least 100 million devices. […]

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