GPS, The Rollover
Failures abound in the GPS realm (due to the recent week rollover on Saturday 2019/04/06). Read Stephen Foskett's superb piece explaining all; and, a presentation on GPS Week Rollover Issues direct from our Government...]. h/t
Failures abound in the GPS realm (due to the recent week rollover on Saturday 2019/04/06). Read Stephen Foskett's superb piece explaining all; and, a presentation on GPS Week Rollover Issues direct from our Government...]. h/t
via Chris Morris' well-crafted reportage at Fortune, comes the story of illegal data sharing engaged in by Motel 6, and the $12,000,000 price tag the company coughed up in settlement fines to the State of Washington. I guess they might not be 'leaving the light on for you' - for a while... Today's Must Read.
"Motel 6 will take a $12 million hit for allegedly sharing the personal information of about 80,000 guests with immigration officials without the knowledge or permission of those customers. The chain has settled a lawsuit brought by the state of Washington over the controversial policy of seven of its hotels in that state between 2015 and 2017. The company has also said it will stop the practice of handing over guest information without a subpoena or warrant, unless it believes someone is in imminent danger." - via Chris Morris', at Fortune
Charles Fol(the bug discoverer, and Security Engineer at Ambionics and maintainer of PHPGGC: PHP Generic Gadget Chains), has published his data related to this highly critical root level bug. This as a pernicious attack against the root environment of your web servers (when executing Apache binaries, that is), worthy of immediate (if not sooner...) remediation (by patch to the released 2019-04-01 Apache HTTP version 2.4.390). Oh, and by the way, there are an estimated (by Rapid7) 2 million vulnerable systems floating around on our beloved interwebs... Here's Dan Goodin's take on the issue as well. Get Crackin'.
Meanwhile, in Governance By Imbeciles news, a troubling a story, via Betsy Woodruff, writing at The Daily Beast, targeting the shuttering of an intelligence analysis group (ostensibly focused on domestic terrorism) at the United States Department of Homeland Security, monikered the 'Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A)'. Also, claims by David Glawe (the new Trump Administration appointee that the grpup's closing makes for enhanced output, yet simutaneously, California's Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department reports work product from DHS (regarding actionable domestic terrorism intelligence) is slowing to a trickle). Read it all in Ms. Woodruff's well crafted reportage, and try not to weep for our Law Enforcement Agegenies at both the Federal and Local levels. Today's Must Read.