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Security News for the Week Ending January 20, 2023

New York Gov Signs Right to Repair Law While industry lobbyists have done their best to water down New York’s right to repair law (and they were relatively successful at it), it is a start. It goes into effect in July, 2023 and while it excludes electronics used in government and schools, has other ridiculous […]

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News Bites for the Week Ending March 27, 2020

Hacker Sells 538 Million Weibo Accounts Karma is a B**tch. With all of the Chinese hacking efforts, someone is hacking back.  Is it us?  Not clear.  In any case, the data includes information like real names, site names, location, etc. and 172 million of the 538 million records include users’ phone numbers, but not passwords.  […]

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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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