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Security News for the Week Ending November 24, 2023

Post Quantum Crypto Isn’t The Only Problem – Pre Stone Age Crypto is Also a Problem While some folks are worried about what is going to happen to encryption when quantum computing becomes real, other companies are still using antique crypto. Unfortunately, many of the companies who are using antiques are medical devices and higher […]

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Security News for the Week Ending November 24, 2023

Post Quantum Crypto Isn’t The Only Problem – Pre Stone Age Crypto is Also a Problem While some folks are worried about what is going to happen to encryption when quantum computing becomes real, other companies are still using antique crypto. Unfortunately, many of the companies who are using antiques are medical devices and higher […]

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Security News for the Week Ending October 20, 2023

Regulators, Insurers and Customers All Going After Progress SW In Progress Software’s 10-Q, it reported that the SEC is going after them due to the MOVEit breach; also a slew of lawsuits in multiple countries. They are also cooperating various privacy regulators. The only winners are the lawyers. Credit: The Register Twitter Usage Still Down […]

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Is Microsoft “Grossly Irresponsible” for Not Fixing Bugs

In light of the most recent Chinese attack on Azure, several people are speaking out. Amit Yoran, chairman of security firm Tenable, former president of RSA and former Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division director, says this in a LinkedIn post: Cloud providers have long espoused the shared responsibility model. That model is irretrievably broken […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 25, 2020

First of all, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. OCC, FRB and FDIC Propose New Rule – Tell Us If You Have a Security Incident The federal banking regulators are proposing a new rule that banks and tech companies that service banks need to report to their regulator within 36 hours if the have […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending November 30, 2018

Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide.  The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem.  All systems […]

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