The Supremes Say Warrant Required For Cell Data In a 5-4 decision last week, the Supremes said that the police should have gotten a search warrant before they asked for months worth of location data of a suspect. The suspect in a robbery case was tracked by the police – over 12,000 locations, over 127 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who do not have a life and hence follow the shenanigans of the legislative process in various states, today is a day that you will remember. The California legislature was held hostage by real estate mogul Alastair Mactaggert. Mactaggert spent $3 million of his own money (for him seat cushion money) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cisco released an announcement that a high severity vulnerability affecting many Cisco ASA firewalls and Firepower security appliances has a proof of concept available in the wild. This means that even amateurs can take that code, modify it a bit and successfully either force your firewall to randomly reboot or to steal credentials from that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]People thought they were going crazy. Their air conditioner randomly turned off. The combination on their door lock changed every day. The doorbell kept ringing even though no one was there. These are all symptoms of domestic abuse where one partner understands how to use those technical toys against the other partner. And, in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Latest Cost Estimates For Equifax Breach is $439 Million According to recent (March) tax filings, costs related to their breach are now $439 million, making the Equifax breach the costliest in US history. Assuming insurance does pay, it would cover, at most, $125 million, leaving Equifax to write a check for $300 million plus. Given […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Thousands of Android and iPhone mobile apps use the Firebase database. The database runs in the cloud and, apparently, by default has no security. The net effect of this is that 100 million records, or more, are exposed for anyone to capture. Firebase, a database run by Google, is very popular with Apple and Android […]
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