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Social Media, Hamas and the EU Digital Services Act

It is no big surprise that disinformation and misinformation is running rampant on all social media in the wake of the war between Israel and Hamas. What is different this time is that, at least for large social media platforms like Meta and Twitter, is that they have two choices – Block all traffic from […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 26, 2021

Tesla Locks Owners Out of Cars – On Accident Hundreds of Tesla owners got locked out of their cars when a server that powers the Tesla app crashed due to load. Apparently those owners forgot there is such a thing as a car key. The outage lasted about 5 hours and Elon Musk later tweeted […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 1, 2020

China, Korea, Vietnam Escalate Hacking During Covid-19 Outbreak The Trump administration is calling out China for hacking our hospitals and research facilities who are looking for cures and vaccines for Covid-19. That should not be much of a surprise since China has always opted for stealing solutions vs. figuring them out themselves. At least that […]

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Security News for the Week Ending February 21, 2020

US Gov Warns of Ransomware Attacks on Pipeline Operations DHS’s CISA issued an alert this week to all U.S. critical infrastructure that a U.S. natural gas compressor station suffered a ransomware attack. While they claim that the attackers did not get control of the gas compression hardware, they did come damn close. The ransomware took […]

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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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ECJ-Safe Harbor Trickle Down Is Already Starting

First, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) rules that the 15 year old Safe Harbor agreement which allowed companies to transfer data between the E.U. and the U.S. was invalid.  Effective immediately. Then the Article 29 Working Group (who is responsible for Safe Harbor) met and said that if the E.U. and U.S. don’t come […]

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