A Pakistani hacker who last week put up 600 million hacked accounts has added another hundred million records plus to the pie. The first batch included 617 million records from 16 hacked sites — Dubsmash – 162 million accounts My FitnessPal – 151 million accounts MyHeritage – 92 million ShareThis – 41 million HauteLook – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anybody Know What 5G Cellular Means? 5G is the next generation of cellular, promising blindingly fast service and web page loads in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately, it doesn’t really exist yet. Yes, a few carriers have set up a few cell sites in a few cities, but there are basically NO phones that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about 4 different cases where courts are moving in the direction of making it easier for plaintiffs to sue companies in case of a breach. Now we have another situation. In the past, judges have approved settlements that only made the lawyers rich. The plaintiffs sometimes got, literally, nothing. That is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many of us use Internet services – Dropbox for file sharing, Google for collaboration, Mint for finances and many others. Some of us – individuals and businesses – have data spread far and wide over the web. So wide that in many cases we really don’t know where our data lives or how it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No one has made it out of this life alive. That I am aware of. Sometimes, while it is not comfortable, we know when a loved one is about to pass and sometimes we are able to prepare for it. In other cases, you don’t know it is going to happen and are completely unprepared. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Text Messaging for Two Factor Authentication is Under Attack We have talked on occasion about a basically theoretical attack against text messages as the second factor for authentication. It is likely that the feds know more than they are telling us about that since the National Institute of Standards and Technology has deprecated the use […]
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