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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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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 September 15, 2023

Ex-NSA Director General Alexander’s Security Company (IronNet) Near Bankruptcy It just goes to show that just because you are famous and people invest $78 million in you, doesn’t mean you know how to run a business. How, exactly, do you blow almost $80 million and realize you are over the edge of the cliff before […]

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Media Calls Twitter ‘Dying Social Media Platform as Humans Flee’

Twitter’s traffic has been plummeting since the launch of Threads according to Vice, but they say that what has been increasing on the platform is the number of bizarre spam accounts hawking questionable wares. Since anyone can now buy a checkmark, these spammers have been doing that and advertising overpriced decorative items and household items. […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending July 7, 2023

Twitter Limits Number of Tweets You Can See Per Day Due to – according to Twitter – an insane amount of data scraping, Twitter is limiting the number of posts an unverified (free) account can see to 1,000 per day; new unverified accounts are limited to 500 a day. Verified (paid) accounts are limited to […]

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Twitter and Saudis Face Racketeering (RICO) Charges as Lawyers Get Creative

RICO is a dragnet law which can subject people and companies to very serious penalties and jail time. This is an extension of the negligence class-actions that use the principles of the Caremark Standard to go after companies with inadequate cybersecurity programs. This is a shift away from the lawsuits the claim that “my social […]

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