The EU has confirmed that it issues burner phones to top officials travelling to the United States but says it wasn’t caused by the new regime. It follows the Financial Times reporting of increased risk of surveillance when travelling to the US amid reports of US treatment of individuals transiting its borders. Customs’ opinion is that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you not familiar with the False Claims Act or FCA, it is a Civil War Era law that the government uses to recover billions of dollars every year from contractors who lie to Uncle about something. In our case, it is going to be lying about their cybersecurity practices. In 2021 the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Information security experts say that China could retaliate against US tariff in a different way. What if President Xi calls in his army of hackers, rumored to be in the neighborhood of 300,000 to go after the United States? He could do this in one of two ways. The first way is to go after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In response to a lawsuit filed by authors and being tried as a class action, Meta is making some interesting claims. The authors claim that Meta use massive quantities of copyrighted material to train its large language model (LLM). The plaintiffs unveiled evidence that Meta used BitTorrent to download at least 81.7 terabytes of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At this point I don’t know if this is good or bad, but it continues with him firing anyone who was there before he entered the White House in January. Air Force General Timothy Haugh WAS the head of both Cyber Command and the National Security Agency. Haugh was in that post for a little […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have seen similar attacks before, but not for a while. This one impacts Canon printer users and it affects production printers (I am guessing this means high performance printers), small office multi-function printers and laser printers. Pretty much everything. The bug involves a vulnerability in the processing that the printer driver has to do […]
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