The US Federal Trade Commission is taking a strong position when it comes to companies fixing any Log4j vulnerabilities. FTC threatens legal action over unpatched Log4j systems • The Register FTC warns legal action against companies who fail to mitigate Log4Shell – The Record by Recorded Future
Tor relays the Tor Browser and the loss of privacy
The Tor browser has been built to improve the privacy of internet users. The US State Department had a hand in supporting the development of the browser (Foreign Policy 2013), as a tool for activists whose goals, it believed, aligned with those of the USA. Of course any activist, of …
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Apple sues now Google sues
I wrote about Apple suing the NSO Group, the manufactures of our friend the Pegasus spyware. Now Google are going after named individuals, they allege are involved with hackers that have attacked and stolen Google user information from around the world. Google sues alleged Russian cyber criminals – BBC News …
Hackers – Microsoft takes direct action
This is positive action taken by Microsoft and the US courts to disrupt the operations of the hacking group Nickel. Protecting people from recent cyberattacks – Microsoft On the Issues Microsoft seizes domains used by “highly sophisticated” hackers in China | Ars Technica This action has given Microsoft control of …
Amazon papers shows it’s efforts to block privacy laws
Big Tech caught again. The papers details the action Amazon has made and is making to impede privacy and consumer law – which has led to some US Members of Congress to call for Federal privacy laws. But to be honest this is not likely to happen!