The Chinese parliament is about to enact a new cybersecurity law which will force U.S. companies doing business in China to make some ugly choices which could, potentially, affect you. If Parliament passes the law on Monday November 7th, it will become law. Foreign business interests (like U.S. tech companies) are sorta unhappy because losing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Denial of Service attacks are a big deal now. Last week the attack against Dyn stopped people from accessing Twitter and hundreds of other busy web sites for hours. These attacks, called denial of service or distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks have many computers send a lot of data at a web server until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you still think that clicking on any of those shortened web page links (like http://bit.ly/4wx345) is a good idea, here comes the best reason ever NOT to click on those links. It appears that the Hillary Clinton email leak may have been caused by clicking on one of those stupid shortened URLs. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]OK, that subject, while true, was really just to catch your attention. Here is the rest of the story (and sorry, this is a bit of a rant). Google has a team that researches security vulnerabilities in all kinds of software. The team, founded in 2014, is called Project Zero. While I am sure it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One more time an open source database, MongoDB, is the source of another huge breach. But it isn’t Mongo’s fault. It wasn’t configured correctly. Human error one more time. OK, what are the details? And is it almost 60 million or 260 million? Modern Business Solutions apparently provides data storage services, although they have refused […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We often tell you about web sites that use your data and sometimes in ways that you don’t expect, but usually it is to sell it to advertisers. However, apparently, AT&T has created a new revenue stream. AT&T calls the program Project Hemisphere. Hemisphere is a program which allows law enforcement to search AT&T call […]
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