Amazon is selling facial recognition technology that it has developed – called Rekognition – to law enforcement agencies and maybe others – Amazon won’t say. While there is nothing illegal about this and if Amazon doesn’t do it, others likely would, it certainly raises privacy concerns. Two police departments that are known to have purchased […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While most of the general user base has never heard of DNS and of those that have, only a few of those understand how it works, that has not stopped the hackers from very effectively abusing it against everyone. Very simply, DNS maps the www.xyz.com names that people use in their browsers into the IP […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Does it Right Matt Green, the well known cryptographer and professor at Johns Hopkins said this about the encrypted messaging app Signal: “After reading the code, I literally discovered a line of drool running down my face. It’s really nice.” But even nice code isn’t perfect. Last Friday, researchers announced very serious bug in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Glad I am not Mark Zuckerberg, Well, maybe. I think I would like to have his bank account 🙂 Facebook is making some efforts to rehabilitate it’s image within the fundamental constraint that it is selling your data for a living. While pretending that it is all for your benefit. As part of this rehab […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you watch those spy movies, they always seem to show the hackers routing their traffic from computer to computer, making it hard to impossible to find them. While it is way harder that it seems in the movies, it is very doable. But in a boned-headed move, many home router manufacturers have enabled a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what is likely no surprise to anyone who watches Washington and especially this administration, there seems to be a bit of confusion regarding cyber security policy. Is it any wonder, given that, that U.S. businesses are equally confused? Case in point – ZTE. ZTE is a Chinese electronics manufacturer with “close ties” to the […]
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