The FTC settled this week with TV maker Vizio for spying on its customers and not telling them about it. Vizio agreed to pay a $2 million fine (which I suspect to them is a nuisance fee), get consumer consent, implement a privacy program and conduct a biennial review, among other things. Here are the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I think this falls into the category of “well, what did you expect?”. I don’t have a particular stance on this issue; for me it is just an interesting view into our society and the fact that many people are oblivious to the consequences of their actions. In addition, there are clear actions these people […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anonymous, the hacking collective, is very unpredictable. Apparently they do not like child porn and the people who sell it. Over the weekend, the hosting service Freedom Hosting II – a very large TOR hosting provider – was taken out by Anonymous. TOR is often used by child porn purveyors to hide their tracks. Sites […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Licking County, Ohio, population 116,000, which bills itself as the 17th largest county in the state has been thrust back into the dark ages. A ransomware attack has taken down all of the county’s computers, including 911 dispatch and, they are saying, it will be a while before things are back to normal. On Tuesday […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Not only are hackers lazy but security researchers are lazy too. Researcher Simon Kenin was being lazy one day and decided to try to hack his Netgear router. Interesting definition of lazy – his, not mine. He came upon an old, known authentication vulnerability. It allowed him to recover his forgotten password without authenticating himself […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unlike the very public fight between the FBI and Apple, the U.S. Government has made many quiet attempts to force tech companies to turn over source code and private encryption keys. In some cases, this was done via civil cases sealed by the court, but in other cases, it was done via a secret order […]
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