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CISA, President, cyber threats, Seal of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency

Trump Proposes Cutting CISA Budget by $491 Million

| | budget cuts, cisa, Cybersecurity, Donald Trump
President Trump wants to cut CISA's budget by $491 million, or 17%, to refocus it on its "core mission" and end what he said is censorship of him and his supporters. Critics ...
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Spyware, whatsapp, Apple. Google, Microsoft

Spyware Maker NSO Ordered to Pay WhatsApp $168 Million for 2019 Hack

| | Meta, NSO Group, Pegasus Spyware, WhatsApp
Meta, which owns WhatsApp, became the first company to sue and win against NSO Group, the maker of the notorious Pegasus spyware, when a U.S. ruled in December that the vendor hacked ...
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ransomware, attack Nefilim

U.S. Wins One, Maybe Two, Extradition Petitions in Unrelated Cases

| | environmental groups, Hacking, Nefilim, Ransomware
In short order, U.S. prosecutors won an extradition case to bring a suspect in multiple ransomware cases to the United States and had another in England move in their favor when the ...
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A fat cat in an orange bucket

200,000 Workers’ PII at Risk in WorkComposer S3 SNAFU

| | Amazon S3, Amazon S3 bucket, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services (AWS), amazon web services compliance, AWS bucket, AWS GDPR Compliance Shared Responsibility, AWS S3 BUCKET, aws s3 storage, breach of privacy, bucket policy, buckets, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), CCPA, CCPA Compliance, cybersecurity challenges in remote working, EU GDPR, GDPR, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), GDPR compliance, gdpr eu, online surveillance, Privacy, remote work, remote work cyber security, Remote Work Cybersecurity, remote work enviornment, remote work productivity, Remote Work Security, remote worker management, remote workers, remote workforce, Remote Workforce Security, remote working, remote working risks, S3, S3 bucket, S3 buckets, SB Blogwatch, spyware, storage bucket, WorkComposer
Don’t say ‘spyware’—21 million screenshots in one open bucket ...
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A pig in a muddy farm field

Asian Scam Farms: ‘Industrial Scale,’ Warns UN Report

| | #CryptoScam, #InvestmentScam, #PigButchering, Amazon Phishing Scams, AppleCare Warranty Scam, bank scam, bitcoin ATM scam, bitcoin scam, bitcoin transfer scams, gift card, gift card fraud, Gift Card Gang, gift card scams, gift cards, GiftCardScams, online romance scam, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, romance, romance fraud, romance scam, romance scammers, romance scams, SB Blogwatch, social media intelligence, United Nations, UNODC
Bacon Redux: Pig butchering and other serious scams still thriving, despite crackdowns in Dubai and Myanmar ...
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In traditional Chinese writing, the word for “crisis” combines the characters for “danger” and “opportunity”

MITRE Crisis: CVE Cash Ends TODAY — CISA says ‘No Lapse’

| | cisa, CISA Research, common vulnerabilities and exposures, CVE, CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures), CVE database, CVE Program, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, cybersecurity funding, Department of Homeland Security, DHS, Funding & Grants, MITRE, MITRE Framework, National Institute of Standards and Technology, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), NIST, SB Blogwatch, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
These are “interesting” times: U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures program expires April 16 ...
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vulnerability management lifecycle

CISA at the Last Minute Extends Funding for Crucial MITRE CVE Program

| | app vulnerabilities, CVE database, Donald Trump, MITRE
The Trump Administration is ending funding for MITRE's crucial CVE database program, a move that promises to hobble cybersecurity efforts around the world. However, CVE Board members introduce a new nonprofit organizations ...
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enemies, CISA, security,trump, states, infrastructure, PCLOB, president, Donald John Trump, President of the U.S.

Trump Strips Security Clearances of Ex-CISA Head Krebs, SentinelOne

| | Chris Krebs, cisa, security clearance, SentinelOne, Trump Administration
President Trump stripped former CISA head Chris Krebs of his security clearances, accusing him of disloyalty for claiming the 2020 election was safe and disagreeing with him regarding the pandemic. SentinelOne, where ...
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Oracle executive chairman Larry Ellison

Oracle Hack: From ‘Deny-Deny-Deny’ to ‘Oops-Oops-Oops’

| | CVE-2021-35587, Larry Ellison, OCI, Oracle, Oracle Access Manager, Oracle Classic, Oracle cloud, Oracle Cloud Classic, Oracle Cloud infrastructure, Oracle Fusion Cloud, rose87168, SB Blogwatch
Classic “wordplay:” Larry’s PR angels desperately dance on the head of a pin ...
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App Stores OK’ed VPNs Run by China PLA

| | 360 Security Technology, App Store, App Stores, Apple, CCP, china, china espionage, China-nexus cyber espionage, Chinese, Chinese Communists, Chinese cyber espionage, chinese government, free vpn app, google, Google Play Store, Peoples Republic of China, Privacy, Qihoo 360, SB Blogwatch, Signal Secure VPN, Snap VPN, Tech Transparency Project, Thunder VPN, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Turbo VPN, VPN, VPN Proxy Master
Bad Apple: Chinese firm banned by the U.S. is the shady entity behind a clutch of free VPN apps—with over a million downloads ...
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