A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.
Let’s pull back on virtual meetings, shall we?
I’m tired of virtual meetings, you’re tired of virtual meetings, we’re all tired of virtual meetings. It’s time to cut back on them. More…
How to Avoid Identity Theft: Interview with Luke Wilson, 4iQ
The author had the privilege of interviewing Luke Wilson, Vice President of Intelligence at 4iQ. He has over 15 years of experience working in US federal law enforcement, for the US Department of Defense, and the US intelligence community. Here you’ll find an audio recording of the interview, and Wilson’s answers to my questions about identity theft, Internet security, and keeping kids safe online. More…
Stop the EARN IT Act to Save Encryption
An important message from the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Congress has revived the EARN IT Act, and it’s even clearer than before what the nefarious purpose of this proposal is. The bill enables every U.S. state and territory to pass laws that put companies who offer encrypted services at the risk of criminal prosecution or civil suit. The goal: put in place universal message scanning with government-approved software.
The Senate Judiciary Committee could vote on this bill as soon as next week. We need you to contact your Senators right now and tell them to reject this plan.
TELL CONGRESS TO REJECT THE EARN IT ACT
Under the guise of fighting child abuse, the sponsors of the EARN IT Act want to coerce private companies to scan every message, photo, and website on the Internet. Then those scans will be checked against U.S. law enforcement databases.
End-to-end encryption is vital to our privacy, security, and freedom of speech. But it will be completely undermined by the kind of universal scanning that these Senators are promoting.
We’ve never let state legislatures regulate the internet, and we shouldn’t start now. EARN IT will create a race to the bottom, as every internet service—small or large—will have to figure out how to comply with the most restrictive state law, or risk prosecution and endless lawsuits.
We urgently need your support to kill the EARN IT Act before it gets any further in Congress. This disastrous bill was originally proposed two years ago, and disappeared after significant pushback—nearly 200,000 EFF supporters told their representatives to oppose the bill. We stopped this bill once, and we can do it again.
TELL CONGRESS TO REJECT THE EARN IT ACT
Yours,
Joe Mullin
EFF Activism Team
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About the Author:
I am a cybersecurity and IT instructor, cybersecurity analyst, pen-tester, trainer, and speaker. I am an owner of the WyzCo Group Inc. In addition to consulting on security products and services, I also conduct security audits, compliance audits, vulnerability assessments and penetration tests. I also teach Cybersecurity Awareness Training classes. I work as an information technology and cybersecurity instructor for several training and certification organizations. I have worked in corporate, military, government, and workforce development training environments I am a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the Minnesota Bloggers Conference, Secure360 Security Conference in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, the (ISC)2 World Congress 2016, and the ISSA International Conference 2017, and many local community organizations, including Chambers of Commerce, SCORE, and several school districts. I have been blogging on cybersecurity since 2006 at http://wyzguyscybersecurity.com