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Free Facial Recognition Software – A Stalker’s Dream and a Victim’s Nightmare

While Clearview AI has billions of images for people to search against, they are expensive and fussy (to a degree) about who they sell to. On the other hand, PimEyes is free and available to anyone with a web browser. As I said, a stalker’s dream. Here is how it works. The stalker uploads a […]

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Security News for the Week Ending July 1, 2022

Russia Cyber Attacks Lithuania After Gov Refuses to Let Russian Coal, Steel Trains Through Apparently Russia couldn’t figure out a way to do any real damage, so they launched a denial of service attack against a bunch of Lithuanian web sites.. This includes the state tax inspector, migration department and secure national data network. The […]

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One FCC Commissioner Asks Apple, Google to Boot TikTok

This is an interesting story and we will have to watch to see where it goes. One FCC commissioner sent a letter to Apple and Google asking/telling them to remove TikTok from their app stores. The commissioner, one of the Republicans, Brendan Carr, said “it is clear that TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk […]

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Only 8% of C-Suite Execs use MFA for a Majority of Apps and Devices

Executives are a prime target for hackers. The reason for this is that execs have access to the most sensitive information – finance, mergers, contracts, personnel, performance, patents, etc. They also, apparently, don’t follow best practices for security. Security company BlackCloak said that 27% of executives have open ports on their home networks, 20% have […]

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Security News for the Week Ending June 24, 2022

Want Some BidenCash? This is not a political statement – at least not by me. There is a new carding site that uses the President’s name and likeness to sell stolen credit card data for as little as 15 cents each. Last week the admins gave away a CSV file with names, addresses, phone numbers, […]

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