According to reports – and denied by the government – The US Department of the Treasury is either creatively stretching the definition of certain laws or outright breaking them. It is likely that we will hear more about this over time. The story goes like this. There is a part of Treasury called FINCEN or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Doublelocker malware is a new strain of Android malware. Rather than finding some vulnerability in the Android OS, it ASKS the user politely, may I please install this malware on your computer. It does this by pretending to be, for example, an Adobe Flash update. Since Flash updates are so common, some people don’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]John Biggs, a contributing writer for Tech Crunch described the details of a hacker’s attack on his online world. John detailed the entire hack and it is very useful for everyone. WHY he was attacked is not clear. Was it a target of opportunity or was he specifically being attack? It appears that it may […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes when the Russians don’t want you to know where you are, they seem to be able to do it. Wired is reporting of a number of tanker ships that seem to be miles from where they actually were. In June the 37,000 ton tanker Atria was transiting the Marmara Sea along the Bosphorous strait […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US CERT (Homeland Security’s Computer Emergency Response Team AKA Computer Emergency Readiness Team) released an alert today for an attack named KRACK for Key Reinstallation Attack. While an article on ARS Technica says that this attack is especially dangerous for Android, Linux and OpenBSD (so much for open source being secure), the Homeland Security alert […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I write this, a couple of very large and very significant breaches have recently either taken place or been revealed – specifically Yahoo’s breach impacting 3 billion users and Equifax’s breach affecting at least 145 million. But there are countless other breaches every day – in fact so many that most don’t even make […]
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