Joe Sullivan, Convicted Former Uber CISO, Speaks Out Sullivan spoke at Black Hat Europe. Unfortunately, he did not say much directly about the case because he is appealing it, but he did have some interesting thoughts about where CISOs are headed and what you should or should not do. I didn’t know this but he […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Part Time Hackers Get Rich A business email compromise hacking group, based in Israel, is so good that it only needs to work part time. Only targeting large companies and their executives, the average haul for this team is $712,000. The overall average from BEC attacks is only $65,000. Learn their success strategy and avoid […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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]The Utah House of Representatives unanimously passed a consumer privacy bill which the Senate passed earlier this year. The governor is expected to sign it and has 20 days to veto it. This bill has a higher threshold – it targets businesses who target Utah residents, have an annual gross revenue of over $25 million […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Databreaches is reporting that someone discovered a large amount of data on a public segment of Amazon Web Services. This person, described as a technology enthusiast (i.e. a geek) downloaded some of this data and discovered it contained medical claims data. The repository, which supposedly contained gigabytes of data was later identified to belong to […]
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