Sextortion is malware that tries to convince you that the attacker has compromised your computer and has videos of you visiting adult web sites. The attackers promise not to share the videos with your friends if you pay them money. The videos do not exist, but scared people sometimes pay. The new variant of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is still a bit like Jello (R) waiting to congeal, the Australian Assistance and Access Bill is designed to require back doors in encrypted communications like Whats App and iMessage. COMPANIES THAT DEVELOP SOFTWARE THAT USE END TO END ENCRYPTION NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT HAPPENS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE APPROPRIATE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably figured out that it is a cryptocurrency (AKA Bitcoin) wallet. But there is something that makes this bitcoin wallet different from the tens of millions of Bitcoin wallets out there in the wild. Making a payment to this Bitcoin wallet may classify you a terrorist and subject you to arrest and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you believe this week’s report from Juniper Research, online payment fraud is expected more than double in the next five years going from a mere $22 billion in losses this year to $48 billion in losses by 2023. The industry recovers that money by raising prices. This cost is about $150 for every man, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This could be a very interesting lawsuit and we will watch it and see where it goes. In 2017 Adobe released Premiere Pro Creative Cloud 2017 version 11.1.0 , Apparently, like a lot of software, this product was not bug free. In fact, a feature called clean cache not only cleaned the cache of Premiere […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Follow on to Google+ Breach and Notification I recently reported about Google getting in trouble for hiding a breach discovered in March. The first thing to point out is that it is unlikely that Google broke any laws. The current breach notifications laws in the U.S. give a company the wiggle room not to disclose […]
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