Zoom Exec Charged With Tiananmen Square Massacre Censorship

The Justice Department accuses a Zoom executive in China of conspiring to harass Americans and to leak their PII.
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CISA Alert: Sophisticated, Ongoing Cyberattacks Go Beyond SolarWinds

CISA warns government agencies & critical infrastructure providers about sophisticated APT cyberattacks that go beyond breaching the SolarWinds Orion platform.
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Cybersecurity Predictions for 2021

Security, risk and anti-fraud experts from across RSA predict the emerging cybersecurity trends and challenges for 2021.
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When Do You ‘Exceed’ Your Authorization to Use Computer Data?

The law is murky on what constitutes legal authorization and use of computer data In Greek mythology, Cassandra was cursed with the ability to know the future, and with the inability to effectively warn anyone about it. Her warnings about the origins … Continue reading When Do You ‘Exceed’ Your Authorization to Use Computer Data?

Kazakhstan Spies on its People via Man-in-the-Middle Attack, Again

The Kazakh government is forcing its citizens to install a spyware root certificate, allowing authorities to crack open TLS traffic, such as HTTPS.
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RDPalooza: RDPs in the World of Cybercrime

  Key Points  Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) is a built-in part of the Windows toolkit popular for facilitating remote work. Cybercriminals take interest in compromising RDP endpoints as they provide direct access into a victim environment via a graphic… Continue reading RDPalooza: RDPs in the World of Cybercrime

Brazil Govt’s Huge Leak: Health Data of 243M

Brazil’s Ministry of Health is under fire again for another massive leak of personal information.
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U.S. Election Security (and Insecurities)

It has been a month since the U.S. 2020 General Election has passed. The election, according to then-Director of CISA Christopher Krebs in mid-November, was the most secure in history with no cases of widespread election fraud. U.S. Attorney General W… Continue reading U.S. Election Security (and Insecurities)

California Federal Court Weighs In (Again) on Social Media Scraping

Social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn have collected personal information on hundreds of millions of subscribers. They have also promised those subscribers that their data will only be shared or used for particular purposes—agreements that … Continue reading California Federal Court Weighs In (Again) on Social Media Scraping

A Look at the Computer Security Act of 1987

U.S. Federal Cybersecurity Today Computer security regulations have come a long way from their early beginnings.  Even before the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA), there was the Computer Security Act of 1987 (CSA). The Computer Secur… Continue reading A Look at the Computer Security Act of 1987