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2 weeks ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Jeffrey Burt |Nathan Eddy |Mark Rasch |Mike Vizard
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2 weeks ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Mark Rasch
The accelerating development of general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI) agents — led by Amazon’s Project Nova, OpenAI’s Operator and Anthropic’s Computer Use initiative — marks a dramatic shift in the way humans interact with digital environments. These systems, capable of autonomously navigating a computer interface, executing multi-step commands, and performing tasks ranging from sending emails to manipulating files or accessing systems, raise serious questions for criminal law.
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2 weeks ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Tom Eston |Patrick Wall |Mark Rasch |Christopher Burgess
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3 weeks ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Mark Rasch
In “Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation,” Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt uses Simon Pegg’s Benji Dunn’s fingerprint to unlock a high-security door. In Fast & Furious 7, Brian O’Connor’s Paul Walker uses a guard’s hand to unlock a phone with his fingerprint, giving him access to sensitive data. In “Ocean’s 8,” Sandra Bullock’s Debbie Ocean and Mindy Kaling’s Amita place a sleeping person’s hand on a scanner, defeating the biometric security device.
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4 weeks ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Mark Rasch
Any business today sends, receives and pays invoices for goods and services. In almost every case, these invoices and payments are sent, approved and paid electronically. Such electronic invoices, with modern payment systems including wire transfers, ACH transfers, Venmo, PayPal, or even cryptocurrency transfers are fast, efficient and effortless. They are also a target for computer hackers and fraudsters, who find them fast, efficient, effortless and lucrative.
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4 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Mark Rasch
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg exposed what is being called “Signalgate”—reporting on a group chat he got added to where high-level government officials shared sensitive information about U.S. plans to attack Houthi rebels—he was taking a big risk, though he did nothing unlawful.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Mark Rasch
Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. When Atlantic magazine editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg exposed what is being called “Signalgate”—reporting on a group chat he got added to where high-level government officials shared sensitive information about U.S. plans to attack Houthi rebels—he was taking a big risk, though he did nothing unlawful.
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1 month ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Mark Rasch
In a recent decision by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, the constitutionality of geofence warrants was put to the test, with significant implications for digital privacy. The case involved the convictions of Jamarr Smith, Thomas Iroko Ayodele, and Gilbert McThunel for robbery and conspiracy, where geofence warrants played a critical role. This ruling not only marks a departure from the Fourth Circuit’s stance taken this past July in United States v.
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1 month ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Mark Rasch
On November 18, 1956, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev met with Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish Embassy on Klimashkina Street in Moscow. He told the assembled ambassadors, “Whether you like it or not, history is on our side.
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1 month ago | 
securityboulevard.com | Mark Rasch
In The Simpsons episode Bart vs. Lisa vs. the Third Grade (Season 14, Episode 3), the students of Springfield Elementary pile onto a school bus for a field trip from Capitol City. Their third grade teacher, wanting to make sure no one gets left behind, implements the Buddy System—pairing each student with a partner who will watch out for them. If one gets lost, the other is supposed to report it.
