Senator Bill Nelson of Florida has introduced a bill as a result of the Uber disclosure that they forgot to tell 57 million people that their data was breached – for a year – that allows for penalties of up to five years in prison for anyone, such as company executives, who willfully conceals a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The basis of all cryptocurrency is a really hard math problem. The idea is that because the math is so hard, it takes a lot of CPU cycles to create the next cryptocurrency coin. It used to be that people, who are called miners, could use their computers to mine the next coin and they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Max Schrems – the same Max Schrems that battled Facebook and won and the same Max Schrems that got the Court of Justice of the European Union to strike down Safe Harbor – that Max Schrems – has a new mission. The General Data Protection Regulation, the new privacy law that takes effect in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In a move that the White House says is for security, John Kelly is considering banning personal cell phones. On one hand, you can’t blame them. After all, Kelly’s own personal cell phone was hacked for six months before they figured it out. On a self serving theme, it is possible that it might cut […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who have been around the Denver cyber security scene, Chris Roberts is a bit of an icon. For those of you who do not know him, he is a white hat hacker who most recently got some undesired fame when he tweeted about hacking a Boeing 737 he was on. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel issued an alert for owners of select PCs, Servers and IoT devices running Intel Core processors shipped since 2015. The firmware in those computers may be vulnerable to attack. The attacks may give hackers access to privileged system information and allow attackers to take over those computers. MOST of the attacks require local access, […]
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