As if it wasn’t already a bad enough month for Intel, it just got a bit worse. This is not related to Spectre or Meltdown; this is an entirely new problem. Intel processors have a remote management engine called Active Management Technology or AMT. This allows corporate administrators to remotely take over those computers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is hard to believe that, in this day and age, people are still using faxes, but they are surprisingly popular, still, in businesses. And extremely error prone. There is no error checking mechanism in a fax machine. You type in a number, stick the pages in and they are transmitted to the other end. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NOTE: THE CONTENTS OF THIS POST MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS. A 28 year old Ohio man has been indicted for creating and installing malware on hundreds of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows computers. The man, Phillip Durachinsky, used the software to spy on people. This includes recording what the camera and microphone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said in an earlier post, after 9-11 Congress passed some major new surveillance laws. The idea was to increase surveillance in a move to try and find more terrorists. Congress also wasn’t completely sold on the idea, so the law sunsets every few years and Congress has to renew it. This is one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week news was leaked of a problem with Intel processors built since 1995. The problem – they could be hacked to possibly leak important stuff like all of your passwords. It then came out that Microsoft and the Linux community were building patches and they would be released soon. Apple said that they released […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that the tech industry follow the model of the financial services industry. Some of the big banks have created a messaging app with delete capability so to keep the regulators happy, they agreed to save a copy of each message for 7 years. Lets apply that to the tech industry […]
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