One possible answer is that they wanted to steal your email, impersonate you and use your email accounts to send spam and malware. This is certainly possible, but there is another, more sinister possibility. What if – China was looking for mountains of data to train its AI systems? The attacks gave them tens of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]California AG Rob Bonta has been enforcing the California Consumer Privacy Act for over a year now and we are learning what he doesn’t like. One bit of good news that we learned is that notices of violations that he sends out triggers a 30 day cure period and that seems to be working. He […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Third Party Risk – You Can Ignore it, But It Won’t Ignore You DataBreaches.net is reporting that a hacker claimed to have hacked an HVAC vendor and remotely accessed systems at the vendor’s customers. One of those customers is reported to be Boston Children’s Hospital. The HVAC vendor is reported to be ENE Systems in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]President Biden staged a big photo op yesterday at the White House to discuss how to improve cybersecurity. As we all know, those kind of meetings, no matter which party is in the Big House, are not actually done to accomplish things, they are for show. So what came out of this dog and pony […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many people have moved to facial recognition to unlock their iPhone, mostly because it is easy. Researchers wanted to know how secure that is. For those people who use their face to authorize payments, the problem is, maybe, a bit more serious. Researchers at Tel Aviv University harnessed deep fakes and that magic word, AI, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe I should title this “what could possibly go wrong”. This is not specifically a security issue, but it could be. Mostly it is a safety issue. In new cars, you have a big ole screen in the front. It is designed to replace the dash controls and instruments. If you are Ford and you […]
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