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FCC: Phone Network Bugs Must Be Fixed — But are SS7/Diameter Beyond Repair?
Richi Jennings | | Big Telecom, carrier, Carriers, Diameter, digital telecom, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Government, Location, location access risks, location data, Location data privacy, location history, location intelligence, location privacy, location sharing location tracking, location tracking, mobile carrier, mobile carrier vulnerability, Mobile carriers, Mobile Location Tracking, Mobile Tracking, Phone Carrier, RADIUS, roaming, Ron Wyden, SB Blogwatch, Sen. Ron Wyden, Smartphone Location Tracking, ss7, telco, Telecom, Telecom Cybersecurity, Telecom Industry, Telecom Industry Vulnerabilities, telecommunications, Telecommunications Security, telephone, telephones, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, wireless carrier
Fast enough for government work: The Federal Communications Commission is finally minded to do something about decades-old vulnerabilities ...
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Ivanti CEO Promises Stronger Security After a Year of Flaws
Ivanti CEO Jeff Abbott, in an open letter and a video, outlined the steps the embattled company is taking to improve its security ...
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CISA Unveils Critical Infrastructure Reporting Rule
The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for the Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act (CIRCIA) of 2022. Under this rule, covered entities must ...
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Mapping Your Path to Passwordless
Denny LeCompte | | Authentication, Cybersecurity, Password, passwordless, passwordless-authentication, passwords, vulnerability
Navigating the shift to passwordless authentication via digital certificates demands a visionary approach that considers the immediate benefits while strategically planning for future scalability and adaptability ...
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Google Chrome Enlists Emerging DBSC Standard to Fight Cookie Theft
Google is prototyping a new technology in Chrome that is designed to thwart the growing trend among cybercriminals of stealing browser session cookies, which enables hackers to bypass multifunction authentication (MFA) protections ...
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The Five Essentials of Immutable Storage: Why They Matter
Organizations need a robust backup strategy that can outsmart bad actors. And these days, that strategy must include immutability ...
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Biden Review Board Gives Microsoft a Big, Fat Raspberry
Richi Jennings | | Active Directory, Authentication, azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Azure security, cisa, CISA.gov, CSRB, Cyber Safety Review Board, Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Administration, Entra ID, Exchange, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Azure Security, Outlook.com, SB Blogwatch, Storm-0558
Storm-0558 forecast: Last year’s Chinese hack of federal agencies’ email is still a mystery, and “should never have occurred,” says CISA ...
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NIST Proposes Public-Private Group to Help with NVD Backlog
An embattled National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), hobbled by budget cuts, is looking for more help from both inside and outside the government. NIST is trying to manage a growing ...
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Picus Security Melds Security Knowledge Graph with Open AI LLM
Picus Security today added an artificial intelligence (AI) capability to enable cybersecurity teams to automate tasks via a natural language interface. The capability, enabled by OpenAI, leverages the existing knowledge graph technologies ...
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Chrome’s Incognito Mode Isn’t as Private as You Think — but Google’s Not Sorry
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, breach of privacy, browser, browser abuse, Chrome, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, customer privacy, Data Privacy, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, google, Google Ad, Google AdSense, Google advertising, Google Chrome, Google Chrome Security, Incognito, Incognito Mode, Link History, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
Short term gain for long term pain? Class action attorney David Boies asked for $5,000 per user, but got nothing—except some assurances Google will delete data it no longer needs ...
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