As Thousands of French Refrigerators Became Ovens, A bigger Problem Exists. Last weekend, thousands of refrigerators in French supermarkets all of a sudden became ovens. Instead of storing food at around 35 degrees, some of them went up to over 100 degrees. Millions of dollars of food had to be thrown away. Some of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, probably we should say another bad PR day. Their PR is so bad that they are having to lay off employees as customers cancel their contracts. A researcher just revealed a map showing more than 300,000 devices in their network, including 170,000 cameras. This is a bit more than the 120,000 cameras they admit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First let me say that I am not suggesting you follow in their footsteps. Ukraine is going after Russia’s infrastructure in the 4 year old war with Russia. Yandex is Russia’s equivalent to Google, loosely. Their data centers run what is called bullet proof hosting – web servers that are immune to being seized by […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]TV show writers certainly know how to read the news and create a script based on that. The police procedural TV series Law & Order which has been running for more than 25 years opened the fall 2026 season with, as the say, a plot ripped from the headlines (more on that in a second). […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We are getting bombarded every day with news about cyber attacks, data theft, ransomware and more. But that does not mean we should ignore physical attacks. Over the last month or two we have been hearing about attacks on water systems across the country. While these attacks were facilitated by computers, ultimately, these attacks boil […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starlink is the biggest target out there, but there are tens of thousands of satellites up there. Are they fair game to either hackers or nation state actors? Are the players like Elon and Jeff (Musk and Bezos) up to the task of defending against state sponsored attacks. We are likely to find out. Musk […]
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