Most of the time we feel pretty helpless when it comes to going after hackers. There is a good reason for that – for the most part, we are helpless. The hackers operate under their own rules and law enforcement really isn’t equipped to deal with them. It is hard enough for the cops to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It usually doesn’t take very long. Whether it is fooling the fingerprint reader or jailbreaking an iPhone, it often comes within hours of a new device or software release. Maybe, in this case, it says that Apple did good because it took a week to break Face ID. On the other hand, it only took […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The NSA hasn’t had a great few years. And it isn’t getting any better. First it was Snowden and dumping documents on seemingly a weekly basis. There were two schools of thought regarding Snowden. Some said he was a hero for disclosing illegal government actions Others said that he was a traitor for disclosing national […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are those in the open source software fan world that suggest that open source (and typically free) software is best because since the source code is available, people can look for bugs and fix them, resulting is bug free software. The reality is not quite so simple. While this statement is technically true, it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This year the TSA’s performance is better than last year. Last year, it has been reported, TSA checkpoints failed to detect contraband 95% of the time. That means for $7+ billion, TSA agents only stopped 5% of the stuff that was not supposed to be allowed on board. This year, according to reports, the number […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Despite the constant news reports of cyber breaches, PwC says that business leaders are not taking this to heart, which means that your data is still at risk. Price Waterhouse Coopers surveyed 9,500 executives in 122 countries and came up with the following – 44% – almost half – say that their firms have not […]
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