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Security News for the Week Ending October 13, 2023

Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]

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Security News for the Week Ending September 29, 2023

Writers Guild Settles Strike With Anti-AI Provision The Writers Guild has tentatively agreed to a new contract with Hollywood that has some sort of anti-AI provision as writers don’t want to be replaced by a computer for much less money. The details have not yet been released, but will likely be copied in many contracts […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending June 30, 2023

Ex-FBI Employee Sentenced to 46 Months for Taking Classified Docs Home In a case similar to the one that an ex-president is facing, ex-FBI agent Kendra Kingsbury was sentenced on two counts of unlawfully retaining documents related to national defense. She held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance and the DoJ says that she removed 386 […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending May 5, 2023

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 […]

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Security News for the Week Ending December 23, 2022

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 […]

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