Laptop farms are a term for people who help the North Koreans pose as IT workers in order to hack US firms. The way it works is that the North Koreans hire someone to front as the host for laptops that a company ships to the remote worker. The front person plugs it in and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cost of Recent UK Retail Cyberattacks is $350 to $600 Million Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-$591 million). Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Harrods were all targets. That is a lot of money for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a critical issue for the AI industry and this opinion was issued by a district court judge, so don’t count those chickens or eggs or whichever comes first just yet. The district court judge is William Alsup. He is well known and has been on the bench for more than 20 years. He […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Of the 99 calendar days between now and the end of the federal government’s year and the expiration of the cybersecurity information sharing law known as CISA 2015, the House will only meet on 27 of them and the Senate on 37 days. During that time, they have to fund the government, raise the debt […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We used say seeing is believing. With AI that is definitely not the case. Hong Kong police reported that a finance worker for a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to crooks. He was tricked into participating in a Zoom call, supposedly with the company’s CFO, along with others. It turns out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Car Production in US Could Shut Down in Weeks Due to China Rare Earth Magnet Ban The president says he has worked this out with China – we will see how much of a squeeze China wants to put him in. Xi, as a master deal maker, could choose to squeeze the hell out of […]
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