WSJ profiles top security expert/writer @briankrebs
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How to cover politics in 2024. 1) Don't report on what the candidate said. 2) Wait a couple of days and then report that he "faces backlash."
Democracy dies in mediocrity.
There's no doubt left that the Washington Post has completely throw in the towel on covering local news. There's nothing on the Post website about this story the local TV stations have been running since yesterday. https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/transportation/virginia-governor-strikes-extra-funding-for-metro/3587748/
Meanwhile, this is the top story on the local news landing page:
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin amended his proposed budget to put more of the responsibility to close Metro’s budget gap on Northern Virginia. What was thought to be a pledge of extra funding from Richmond for Metro essentially was taken back. “Not shocked but disappointed,” said Northern Virginia Transportation Commission Chair and Arlington County Board member Matt de Ferranti. In the…
Compare and contrast how the Washington Post and the indie local-news site ArlNow covered the explosion of a house in Arlington as police closed in on armed and apparently deeply-unwell man barricaded inside—even the Web addresses of the articles suggest how much earlier the publication without Bezos backing got to the story.
https://www.arlnow.com/2023/12/04/part-of-bluemont-trail-closed-due-to-man-shooting-off-flare-gun/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/12/04/blast-arlington-flare-gun-house/
In 2019, I broke the news that First American Title Insurance Co, the country's second-largest title insurer, had leaked on its public website hundreds of millions of documents related to mortgage deals going back to 2003. The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.
According to a report today from Newsday, First American has agreed to pay New York state $1 million for violating the state's cybersecurity regulation.
Not sure how the regulators reached $1m as an appropriate fine, but it seems small to me.
https://www.newsday.com/business/first-american-title-insurance-settlement-new-york-xh6x1gj0
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