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Image Courtesy of Brian Smale and Microsoft

MSFT Drops OS Ball, Again

| | Oops!, Operating System Security, or Lack Thereof
Image Courtesy of Brian Smale and Microsoft Why is Microsoft Corporations' (NASDAQ: MSFT) CEO Satya Nardella touting underwater servers instead of focusing on the plight of current Windows Server and Desktop users ...
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GrrCon 2018 Ada15 Guaranteed Failure Awareness The Greatest Cyber Insanity Joshua Naga Crumbaugh

GrrCon Augusta 2018, Joshua “Naga” Crumbaugh’s ‘Guaranteed Failure: Awareness The Greatest Cyber Insanity’

| | Conferences, education, GrrCon Augusta, Information Security, or Lack Thereof, Security Awareness
Videography Credit: Irongeek (Adrian Crenshaw). Permalink ...
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Amazon, The Rekognition Fail

Amazon, The Rekognition Fail

| | Corporate Accountability, Corporate Evil, Hubris, or Lack Thereof
This situation - the failure of a highly touted Amazon Corporation (NasdaqGS: AMZN) machine learning/psuedo-artificial-intelligence API/Database construct known as 'Amazon Rekognition' - is a Prime example of large-scale, resilient corporate hubris ...
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Take Cover! EU Threatens Privacy War Against United States

Take Cover! EU Threatens Privacy War Against United States

| | Governmental Corruption, Information Security, Must Read, or Lack Thereof, Privacy
Lucian Armasu, writing at Tom's Hardware, details actions under contemplation by European Lawmakers. Today's Must Read (maintain some composure when examining the rationale of the EU Parliament...) ...
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The Polar Exposure

The Polar Exposure

| | Information Security, or Lack Thereof
via the eponymous Ms. Smith, whilst writing at CSO, has detailed another Polar branded (Polar Flow) fitness tracking app exposure of service member's personally identifiable information (specifically locale, names and addresses). The ...
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via Luke Kingma & Lou Patrick-Mackay at Futurism Cartoons

Luke Kingma & Lou Patrick-Mackay’s ‘Door To Door Data Miners’

| | or Lack Thereof, Privacy, Sarcasm, satire, Security Humor
via Luke Kingma & Lou Patrick-Mackay at Futurism Cartoons Permalink ...
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Photo Credit & Art: Yondernews.com

Facebookery: Huawei, Other Chinese Manufacturers Slurp Facebook Data

| | Data Security, Facebookery, or Lack Thereof
Photo Credit & Art: Yondernews.com via Ina Fried and David McCabe, writing at Axios, comes the latest revelation of feckless management of user data at Facebook Inc. (Nasdaq: FB), this time, the ...
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Buys your location data, doesn't seek permission... Time to call your attorney!

AT&T, Verizon, T-Mobile, AT&T, Sprint: We’re Selling Your Location Data To Prison Tech Company. Nothing To See Here!

| | Blatant Stupidity, Demise of Privacy, Information Security, or Lack Thereof, Privacy
Buys your location data, doesn't seek permission... Time to call your attorney! via Zack Whittaker, writing at ZDNet's Zero Day, exposes the selling of mobile device location data (for all customers) to ...
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DOD, The Banning

DOD, The Banning

| | Hardware Security, national security, or Lack Thereof
DOD Bans On-Base Sale Huawei, ZTE Mobile Devices via Graham Cluley, writing at GrahamCluley.com, comes this interesting story, originaly via Stu Woo and Gordon Lubold, both at The Wall Street Journal, in ...
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