Cars have huge attack surfaces. And getting bigger every year. One source says the average car has 30-50 computers and luxury cars have a hundred (personally, I think that is low). Add to that 60 to 100 sensors. Some cars have a hundred million lines of code in them. How do you make that 100 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are creative if nothing else. Normally when police want data, they need to provide a subpoena or warrant, but that is not required in all cases. If there is a risk of imminent harm – life or death – the police can just ask a company for their data and they have to comply. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Digital Markets Act is designed to reign in big companies like Amazon, Facebook and Apple. Alternatively, those companies could choose not to do business in Europe, fearing the requirements could be too expensive or too risky. My guess is that none of the platforms will have the guts to do that, but who knows. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ukraine Starts Using Clearview Facial Rec to Detect Ruskies Ukraine is using Clearview’s facial recognition tech to identify Russian operatives trying to infiltrate the Ministry of Defense. Clearview has over 2 billion photos scraped from Russia’s social media service VKontakte. They are not sharing with Russia. That likely makes Clearview a high priority hacking target […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI runs something called the IC3 or the Internet Crime Complaint Center. While they do occasionally catch bad guys, their main objective (they might argue with this) is to understand how big the problem is and share information with a lot of other law enforcement agencies. The bad news is that the problem is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russian con artist Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the dark web payment firm (credit card processor) ChronoPay and the antagonist in Brian Krebs’ 2014 book Spam Nation, was arrested in Moscow this month for fraud. In Brian’s book, he talks about the fraudulent money laundering and SMS payment schemes than Vrublevsky operated. ChronoPay “specializes” in providing […]
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