Regulatory Compliance

Digital Crack for Kids: TikTok Sued Again by 14 AGs
Richi Jennings | | Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), china, chinese government, Coppa, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, spyware, TikTok, TikTok Ban, Won’t somebody think of the children?
For You Plague: TikTok’s in trouble once more—this time, some states complain it’s breaking laws by harvesting children’s data and keeping them addicted ...
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Biggest Ever DDoS is Threat to OT Critical Infrastructure
Richi Jennings | | Analyzing DDoS Attacks, application-layer DDoS attacks, Cloudflare DDoS Protection, Critical Infrastructure, critical infrastructure attack, critical infrastructure attacks, Critical Infrastructure Security and Resilience Month, cyber attack on critical infrastructure, ddos, DDoS amplification, DDoS attack, distributed denial of service, Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks, distributed denial of service attack, ICS, ICS/SCADA systems, industrial control systems, Infrastructure, iot, operational technologies, operational technology, operational technology security, OT, SB Blogwatch, US critical infrastructure
Egyptian River Floods: Operational technology (OT) targeted in “world record” 3.8 Tb/s distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...
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Will Smaller Companies Buckle Under the SEC’s Incident Reporting Requirements?
The SEC’s new incident reporting requirements have brought about many questions and concerns among security professionals and government bodies ...
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E2EE is MIA in iPhone/Android Chat — GSMA Gonna Fix it
Richi Jennings | | android, Apple, Apple iOS, Apple iPhone, china, E2EE, end-to-end, end-to-end encryption, google, Great Firewall of China, GSMA, iChat, imessage, ios, iOS 18, iPhone, iphone security, MLS, RCS, RCS protocol, SB Blogwatch, SMS, SMS messages
No More Barf-Green Bubbles? GSM Association is “excited” to bring Apple and Google closer together, but encryption is still lacking ...
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Russian ‘WhisperGate’ Hacks: 5 More Indicted
Richi Jennings | | Cadet Blizzard, Ember Bear, Frozenvista, GRU, GRU Unit 29155, NATO, NATO Member State, Ransomware, Russian GRU, SB Blogwatch, UAC-0056, Ukraine, ukraine conflict, Ukraine Cyber Attacks, Ukraine Cyber War, Ukraine cyberattack, Ukraine-Russia War, UNC2589, WhisperGate Wiper
Eaten by a GRU: Fake ransomware created by Russian GRU Unit 29155 attacked Ukraine and NATO—a month before the full scale invasion ...
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Yikes, YubiKey Vulnerable — ‘EUCLEAK’ FIDO FAIL?
Richi Jennings | | CVE-2024-45678, ECDSA, EUCLEAK, FIDO, FIDO2, Infineon, Passkeys, SB Blogwatch, YSA-2024-03, Yubikey
USB MFA SCA😱: Infineon hardware and software blamed for timing side-channel attack on popular auth tokens ...
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‘Terrorgram’ Telegram Terrorists Trash Transformers — Grid in Peril
Richi Jennings | | Anti-Terrorism, Child Abuse, child exploitation, Child Online Safety, child porn, child pornography, Child protection, Child Safety, child sexual exploitation, childpornography, Counter-Terrorism, counterterrorism, CSAM, Data encryption, E2EE, encryption, end-to-end encryption, extremism, france, ICS, ICS/SCADA systems, Pavel Durov, Privacy, Russia, SB Blogwatch, Telegram, Telegram app, Terrorgram, Terrorism, terrorist, terrorist attack, Terrorist attacks
Should’ve listened to Edison: After the arrest of Pavel Durov—the Telegram CEO—comes news of domestic extremists using the chat app to organize ...
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Pig Butchering at Heart of Bank Failure — CEO Gets 24 Years in Jail
Richi Jennings | | #PigButchering, Crypto, crypto cons, crypto crime, crypto currency, cryptocurrency, Heartland Tri-State Bank, online romance scam, pig butchering, Pig Butchering Scams, romance, romance fraud, romance scam, romance scammers, romance scams, SB Blogwatch, Shan Hanes
Oink, oink, FAIL—you’re in jail: Kansas bank chief exec Shan Hanes stole money from investors, a church and others to buy cryptocurrency to feed a scam ...
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Survey: Senior Executives Being Held More Accountable for Cybersecurity
A global survey of 1,850 IT and cybersecurity decision-makers finds more than half (51%) reporting that directors or executives have faced fines, jail time, loss of position, or loss of employment following ...
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Don’t Mess With Texas Privacy: AG Sues GM for $18 BILLION
Richi Jennings | | Consumer IoT, SB Blogwatch, Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, vehicle cybersecurity
KP♡TX PII: “General Motors has engaged in egregious business practices that violated Texans’ privacy … in unthinkable ways,” rants state attorney general Ken Paxton (pictured) ...
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