It seems like the spy-guys (or is it spy-people) can’t seem to catch a break. First it was Snowden; more recently it was Martin – both Booz Allen contractors at the NSA. Now it is the CIA. Wikileaks published thousands of documents, which appear to be real, describing CIA hacking tools. This includes, supposedly, at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We tend to think of 911 as ubiquitous across the United States. In reality, the thousands of PSAPs, as 911 contact centers are formally known, are a patchwork of aged technology that makes many of us cringe. A Public Safety Answering Point is run locally by a city or county and dispatches fire, police, ambulance […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Washington Post is reporting that Vice President Mike Pence used a personal email account to conduct government business when he was Governor of Indiana. The Veep says that his use of a personal email account is different than Clinton’s use of a personal email account and I do not want to turn this into […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stewart International Airport has a long history. In 1930 Thomas Stewart convinced his Uncle to donate land for an airport to the city. In 1939 the U.S. Military Academy at West Point built the first airfield at Stewart and in 1948 it became Stewart Air Force Base. In 1970 the State of New York bought […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you were of those who thought that there was no real cost to cyber breaches, you might want to ask Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and GC Ron Bell about that. The Yahoo Board has decided not to award Mayer, CEO of Yahoo during all of the recent breaches and renegotiated Verizon deal, any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Application penetration testing or pen test is more critical than ever and news today is only the most recent example of why. Spiral Toys makes a line of Internet connected teddy bears (aka smart bears, I guess) that allows parents and children who were physically apart to share personal messages. Unfortunately for the purchasers of […]
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