Just call me dumb. For the last couple of years the feds have been claiming that Chinese equipment manufacturers like Huawei pose a national security risk to the United States. I really didn’t understand this since all the data transmitted over the cellular network is encrypted, so what is the problem. First, in theory, after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]San Francisco Cops Want Real-Time Access to Private Security Cameras for Surveillance San Francisco lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow police to use private security cameras for real time surveillance. This bill expands a 2019 city ordinance that requires police to seek authorization before acquiring and deploying surveillance, hence this notice. While it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s assume that you are interested in buying cybersecurity insurance. It is very likely that the underwriter is going to use one of the External Attack Surface Management tools (EASM) like the ones we sell to decide whether to write insurance for you. Your customers may also use an EASM tool to decide whether to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security is doing what everyone else is doing and buying your location data from the data brokers. That practice started during the last administration and is continuing. It is important to understand that there is nothing illegal about this. If the government wants to compel a carrier to hand over data, they need a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are two types of companies – those who have been hacked and those that will be. – Former FBI Director Robert Mueller. Some people modified that quote to read – those who have been hacked and those that don’t know that they have been hacked. Which ever version of this saying that you prefer, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Experian Users Say Their Account Has Been Hacked Brian Krebs is reporting that two users have written to him in the last month saying that their accounts at Equifax was hacked. Both users claim to have used strong, unique passwords with password managers. Equifax does not offer MFA (shocking! Actually not, this is Equifax that […]
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