Senate Passes Legislation to Protect Against Deep Fakes While I agree that deep fakes – photos and videos that use tech to make it look like someone is saying something or doing something that they never did – can be nasty, is that really the best use of the Senate’s time right now? In any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Covid happened 9 months ago no one really knew what to expect. I am not sure that anyone still knows what to expect, but it looks like that Work From Home (WFH) is here to stay. Many companies have decided that it has not negatively impacted productivity and some even say that productivity is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The new law is called The Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act and it is a start. Just a start. While no one can agree how many billions of IoT devices are going to installed when, what we do know is that it is going to be tens of billions of devices and growing dramatically […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently Walmart has been selling an affordable Jetstream router. Affordable, apparently, because it has a back door in it that would allow hackers to not only control the router, but also all of the computers on your network. But Walmart is not alone. Wavlink routers sold on Amazon also have back doors. In this case […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oracle POS Back Door Discovered Oracle bought the Micros Point of Sale System a few years ago and now needs to deal with the challenges from that. The newest challenge is a modular back door that affects the 3700 POS series. It is used by hundreds of thousands of hotels, restaurants, bars and other hospitality […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think that in 2020 we wouldn’t have to tell people not to use default passwords. You would certainly think that we wouldn’t have to tell government IT folks not to do that. But if you thought that, apparently, you would have thought wrong. We are still telling end users to change the password […]
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