Also get ready to patch your Infiniti, Nissan, Acura, Mercedes, Genesis, Ford, Toyota, Jaguar, Kia, Honda and Land Rover. As car makers attach more bells and whistles to your new car, assume a steady stream of recalls. The problem is that the car makers are not patching older cars, so they will remain vulnerable until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Louisiana law now makes it a crime for web sites serving content harmful to minors to install age verification technology, but only for users who are in Louisiana. The law became effective on January 1st. The law says that any web site that intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors shall be held […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]People want to pretend that whatever they do on social media is somehow separate from their work life, but it is not. If you are a defense contractor with a clearance, even a “public trust” level of clearance (which is a very low level clearance), what you do on social media definitely counts. In fact […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Comcast Xfinity Accounts Hacked in Widespread 2FA Bypass While Comcast is not saying much, a number of users who use Comcast email WITH 2FA are reporting their accounts being hacked. It appears this is due, possibly, to password reuse combined with a bug in Comcast’s system which allows the hackers to bypass 2FA. Once the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Source code is getting hacked more frequently these days. In March, Samsung announced that hackers had stolen source code to their Galaxy phones. Also in March, Microsoft said that hackers stole the source code for Bing, Maps and Cortana. In May Mercedes admitted that they had misconfigured a source code repository and anyone could download […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For you military types, BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): probably not. There are a number of reasons for my pessimism, including one I hadn’t considered. First the obvious reasons. The end of this legislative session is right around the corner and there are a lot of things that the folks in power want to get […]
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