Defcon Hacker Hacks Deere Tractor to Play Doom The right to repair folks and some manufacturers have been at odds for years regarding right to repair. John Deere has really be anti-right. This year a researcher demoed hacking a tractor and getting it to play Doom on the main display. Credit: Hackread Monero Developers “Fork” […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is some data to consider: The US General Accounting Office (GAO) says the percentage of businesses buying cyber risk insurance jumped from 26% in 2016 to 47% in 2020. Here is why. Coalition insurance released some data from their claims history. Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) continues to be a big problem according to Coalition […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A cybersecurity vendor for one of Mexico’s largest banks sent a cease-and-desist to a cybercrime forum saying that an auction on the site for data stolen from the bank – data for 10 million customers – was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation. So what did the web site’s administrator do? Not what the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to get a lot of good news when it comes to cybersecurity. Here is one good story. Katie Yates received some nude photos of a friend, Natalie Claus (normally we don’t use names, but these women are working hard to make a point that there is nothing to be ashamed of and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Windows 11 May Damage Data on Some CPUs Microsoft issued a warning that computers that use the Vector AES instruction set might damage data , but they don’t say how or why. Microsoft says fixes in June and May prevent further damage but the result is that encryption is much slower after the patch. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Small businesses especially, seem to be realizing, finally, that consumers don’t want to be the “product”. After Apple changed the rules last year to require businesses to get permission to track users’ behavior and share their information, things changed. The biggies – Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are estimating that they will lose $18 billion in […]
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