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National Security and the Chinese-based Social App TikTok

Nov 9, 2019 | Applications, Best Practices, Business, China, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Entertainment, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Malware, Nationstates, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, safety, Security, Security, Security Alerts, Social Media, spying, Technology, TikTok, Updates

National Security and the Chinese-based Social App TikTok Have you or Do your kids use TikTok? TikTok is a wholely owned Chinese based video platform that is popular in social media circles. It boast a user base of a half-a-billion. What the government is...

Online Voting is a Disaster waiting to Happen

Nov 9, 2019 | anonymity, Applications, Audit Logs, audit logs, automation, Big Tech, Business, Cloud Vendors, Code-Breaking, Computers, Consumer, credentials, Cyber breaches, Data, Data Storage, Databases, Elections, Elections, Encryption, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hard Disks, Internet, Legal, Machine Learning, Malware, Nationstates, Networking, Online Voting, Organized Crime, Patching, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, Security Alerts, Software As A Service, Technology, Updates, Voting Technology

Online Voting is a Disaster waiting to Happen If it is connected it can be hacked. The risk of only digital data that can not be audited is just a sure way to assure meddling and hacking of our elections. The integrity of our elections must remain paramount if...

Cyber Cold War Right on Our Door Step

Nov 1, 2019 | Business, China, Cyber breaches, cyberattacks, Cybercrime, Cybersecurity, Dark Web, Government, Hackers, Hacking, Hacking, industrial espionage, Insider Threat, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Nationstates, News, North Korea, Organized Crime, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulation, Russia, safety, Security, spying, Surveillance, Technology

Cyber Cold War Right on Our Door Step Nation-State sponsored cybercrime is on the upswing. China, as an example, has an entire cyber army that it dispatches to US university programs and US businesses as well as to third party providers world-wide who offer...

International News Hits the Dark Web

Nov 1, 2019 | BBC, Big Tech, Business, Censorship, Government, Internet, Networking, News, Politics, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, safety, spying, Surveillance, Technology, Tracking

International News Hits the Dark Web Privacy is paramount, and it is one reason that the US government designed and implemented the TOR project. Now there is another reason, and that is preventing censorship of thought. That is the main reason that major...

When Businesses Are Required to Capitulate to Chinese Society

Nov 1, 2019 | Big Tech, Business, China, Code-Breaking, Cyberbullying, Government, industrial espionage, Intellectual Property Theft, Internet, Nationstates, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Regulation, spying, Surveillance, Technology, Tracking

When Businesses Are Required to Capitulate to Chinese Society China is forcing companies to deliver content that is not culturally acceptable to Chinese society. Many companies and organizations are capitulating with these requirements to do business in China....

Privacy and China — Not So Much

Nov 1, 2019 | anonymity, Banking, Banking, Business, Cashless, China, Cryptocurrency, Cryptocurrency, Financial, Government, Hacking, Monitoring, Online, Privacy, Radio Show, Radio_Show, Security, spying, Surveillance, Technology, Tracking

Privacy and China — Not So Much China is planning on developing its digital currency due to the rising costs of currency circulation and lack of control. China, a communist society, wants to control everything about its citizens. That goes on to include how,...