Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As most of you probably know, TikTok is in the fight of its life. While, if Americans stop using it, that only represents a hundred million users, they are relatively speaking very wealthy and the data they represent is very useful. While TikTok says it is not sharing your data with the Chinese government, China, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chris Inglis Leaving White House Cyber Director White House jobs are hard. Even for a Brigadier General. News outlets are reporting that he will leave that post in early 2023. Before coming to the White House, he was the deputy director of the NSA. His experience will be missed. He did say early on that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Tells Its 300,000 Customers That Impact of Ransomware was Limited Due to Their Great Incident Response (Not?) In what can only be called an amazing expression of tone-deafness, Rackspace says that due to their great incident response program, only their exchange users were shut down due to a ransomware attack. Needless to say, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Admits Outage Related to Ransomware On Tuesday, five days into an outage of Rackspace’s hosted Exchange service, they admitted it was due to ransomware. They say it is going to impact revenue as they work to mitigate the problem. It is still a dumpster fire, but they are dribbling out information at last. I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is an interesting story and we will have to watch to see where it goes. One FCC commissioner sent a letter to Apple and Google asking/telling them to remove TikTok from their app stores. The commissioner, one of the Republicans, Brendan Carr, said “it is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk […]
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