Washington, DC - Les Chateaux De France, Inc., an Inwood, N.Y. establishment, is recalling approximately 4,225 pounds of bacon-wrapped scallops due to misbranding and an undeclared allergen, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. The products contain milk, a known allergen, which was not declared on the product label. 

Davis, California - Quick, do you know the difference between encryption and hashing? Do you know what salting is? Do you want to? That’s a rhetorical question - I’m going to tell you anyway.

Encryption and hashing are sometimes confused with one another. Salting… not so much. But it’s worth taking a look at all three so that we can better understand encryption as a whole.

Washington, DC - Every few years, my family takes a trip to Walt Disney World. After all, when you live on the East Coast and have two kids, it’s easy to make an excuse to visit “The Most Magical Place on Earth.” As manager of the NIST Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT) program, when I think of the theme of National Cybersecurity Awareness Month this week, “Today’s Predictions for Tomorrow’s Internet,” my mind immediately goes to the Carousel of Progress.

Washington, DC - The Federal Trade Commission has obtained a $4.1 million judgment and a ban on handling certain sensitive financial information about consumer debts against an operation that sold lists of fake payday loan debts to debt collectors.

Washington, DC - GB Green Gastronome, LLC, a Jamaica, N.Y. establishment, is recalling approximately 8,000 pounds of chicken and pork products due to misbranding and undeclared allergens, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

Orlando, Florida - Daniel Rushing was arrested in Orlando, in 2015 for drug possession.  A patrol officer stopped him for a traffic violation and searched his car finding what looked like crystal meth and so he was taken into custody.  It took the police several weeks to discover that it wasn't illegal methamphetamine that the officer found; it was the remains of a Krispy Cream doughnut, according to the Association of Mature American Citizens [AMAC].