Ride the Lightning

Jun 04, 2019

Your Password May Never Expire Again!

TechCrunch has reported that Microsoft has removed the password expiration policies from its Windows 10 security baseline. Many enterprise-scale organizations

Jun 03, 2019

Electronic Frontier Foundation Takes On Online Speech Moderation with TOSsed Out

The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced on May 20th that it had launched TOSsed Out, a new iteration of EFF’s longstanding

May 30, 2019

Lawyer's Stomach "Flipped" When He Got Caught in a $400,000 Scam

According to a recent report in Texas Lawyer, Houston attorney Roy Elizondo has been living a nightmare for the past

May 29, 2019

NIST is Pleased to Give You an Artificial Intelligence Brain Freeze

You know you're in trouble when you don't even understand the abstract of a document. The National Institute of Standards

May 23, 2019

Yes, Alexa Does Eavesdrop on You!

Recording and keeping the recordings? Sure, it happens to millions of us with its assistant Alexa in microphone-equipped Echo speakers. 

May 22, 2019

C U in Court: Text Messages Remind Defendants to Show Up

Everything about law is changing. Who would have thought that courts would text messages to defendants to show up on

May 21, 2019

Two Law Firms Lost Over $117K to Cybercrime Network

I have been following this story for several days thanks to Dave Ries, but found that yesterday's ABA Journal contained

May 20, 2019

San Francisco First Major U.S. City to Ban Facial Recognition Technology

The New York Times (sub.req.) reported that on May 14th San Francisco banned the use of facial recognition software by

May 16, 2019

FTC Again Calls for Single Federal Privacy Law

As Naked Security reported on May 10th, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is again advocating the long-discussed, much-debated, when-in-the-world-will-this-happen

May 15, 2019

U.S. Military's Hacking Arm Gearing Up for 2020 Elections

As The Washington Post (sub.req.) reported on May 8th, Russia viewed the midterm elections as a “warm-up” for 2020. The

May 14, 2019

Feds Are Spending Millions to Hack Into Locked Phones

The Washington Post (sub.req.) reported on May 13th that federal agencies are spending millions to hack into locked phones. A

May 13, 2019

Highlights of Verizon's 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report

Last week, I covered the jump in nation-state affiliated data breaches. Today, I am ready to take on the overall