DNS, that service that converts www.Foxnews.com (or whatever) to 23.39.41.42 is one of the last bits of the Internet that is not encrypted. Or at least it was. Google and others have developed two different solutions to encrypt DNS – DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. These are variations of each other and I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, so Teams is not a verb. But neither was Google, as in go Google it. Hackers have figured out that as people are just learning about collaboration software like Teams and Slack, there is a lot of squishiness around the edges. Say you are part of a Teams group that includes employees, contractors and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First Apple and Google removed the Parler app from both of their app stores. Then Amazon kicked them off Amazon’s AWS platform for violating their terms of service. That would seem like a problem for most companies, but that was the good part of their week. Yesterday a security researcher who goes by the nickname […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Britain Says Assange Cannot be Extradited Julian Assange, a long time thorn in the backside of some folks in the US government, cannot be extradited to the US, a British court says. The court said that while he probably can get a fair trial in the US, the court system in the US is unlikely […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This one is gonna get a little geeky, so if that is not your cup of tea, but can just skip this post knowing that the feds did not shut down cell service to keep the crowd from communicating; the crowd did it to itself. Many people reported that they had no cell service as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Donald Trump has signed an executive order banning the use of eight Chinese apps, namely Alipay, CamScanner, QQ Wallet, SHAREit, Tencent QQ, VMate, WeChat Pay, and WPS Office. The EO says that the apps can track users and capture personal data – Just like, say, Facebook or Fox News or any other American app. But […]
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