As long as we are on the subject of election rigging and tampering, it is notable that Congress has finally weighed in on the subject of insecure and hackable electronic voting machines. According to a recent TechDirt article, “A new bipartisan bill has been introduced, called the Secure Elections Act, that would actually target ...
I recently caught a story on the BBC World News via PBS. Anders Thornberg, the director of Swedish Security Services (SAPO) was accusing the Russians of engaging in social media driven misinformation campaign very similar to what happened in recent elections in France and Germany, and in the US during the last Presidential Election. Evidently Putin is concerned that Sweden may join NATO, and is actively campaigning for candidates who are opposed to NATO.
The press has been relentless lately in its coverage of Russian cyber-espionage and disinformation campaigns on Facebook and other social networks prior to the last US Presidential campaign. But is Russia the first to engage in election rigging on this sort? Hardly. We thought that looking at the state of cyber-espionage as a tactic in international relations might be interesting, and we were right. It turns out that cyber-espionage is not ...
Since Equifax leaked credit and identity information on ALL of us last year, I have been in a foul mood about the clueless and technically inept C-level corporate executives who are responsible for these breaches. Throw the bums in jail!
Well, a law working its way through Congress may do just that. For the first time executives may be facing not just ritual termination, and shaming in the press, but actual hard ...
Continue Reading →I like to keep the nasty business of politics off of this website, but every now and again it rears its ugly head in ways we cannot ignore. Net neutrality is one of those issues.
Politically, I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, and voted Libertarian in the last election. I did not vote for Trump, and I couldn’t vote for Hilary, either. As predicted, Trump is dismantling a lot of the Obama administration’s legacy, and network neutrality is ...
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Many companies and organization are moving their data repositories to the cloud, to places such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). Hopefully, if your company is moving to the cloud, you are doing a better job securing this information than the Department of Defense or the National Security Agency.
The first story involves a trove of data left on AWS servers, and discovered by security ...
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H.R.4036 – formerly called the Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act and informally called the hack-back bill – was introduced as an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) last week. Introduced by Georgia Republican Tom Graves, and Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, in the House of Representatives. ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Veteran’s day is a remembrance of all U.S. military veterans – past and present. It is celebrated every November 11th, and has been a federal holiday since 1926.
10/31/2017 08:14 AM EDT Original release date: October 31, 2017
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Happy Halloween! Nothing like a scary story to end the holiday. The scary story in cybersecurity is that Kaspersky anti-malware and security products are in league with the Putin government and the FSB in Russia. The FBI is advising government agencies to drop Kaspersky and find a new endpoint security solution.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia and operated through a holding company in the United Kingdom. Kaspersky was founded by Eugene ...
Continue Reading →The Equifax breach has been all over the news this weekend, and it should be. This is worse than they are telling us. It most certainly DOES affect you, if you are adult and have ever purchased a car or opened a credit card account. Don’t wait to be told you are a victim. Assume you are a victim.
In a world where we are all suffering from “breach fatigue,” having suffered through dozens if not hundreds of these revelations about ...
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