Sextortion is malware that tries to convince you that the attacker has compromised your computer and has videos of you visiting adult web sites. The attackers promise not to share the videos with your friends if you pay them money. The videos do not exist, but scared people sometimes pay. The new variant of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Australian Parliament Passes Crypto Back Door Law Overnight Politics always wins. After the Prime Minister said that the opposition party was supporting terrorism, the opposition completely folded after claiming that Parliament would implement amendments after the first of the year. Since politicians lie about 99.99% of the time, the party in power is now saying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was Marriott. The breach of Marriott’s Starwood division systems exposed data on 500 million clients and triggered multiple lawsuits and investigations. That breach was four years in the making and across two different management teams – first at Starwood and then at Marriott. Undetected. This week 1-800-Flowers announced that it too was breached. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is still a bit like Jello (R) waiting to congeal, the Australian Assistance and Access Bill is designed to require back doors in encrypted communications like Whats App and iMessage. COMPANIES THAT DEVELOP SOFTWARE THAT USE END TO END ENCRYPTION NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT HAPPENS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE APPROPRIATE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably figured out that it is a cryptocurrency (AKA Bitcoin) wallet. But there is something that makes this bitcoin wallet different from the tens of millions of Bitcoin wallets out there in the wild. Making a payment to this Bitcoin wallet may classify you a terrorist and subject you to arrest and […]
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