Equifax Agrees to Pay UP TO $700 Million to Settle Breach Lawsuits First – the settlement hasn’t been agreed to by the court yet, so this is all speculation. Of the $700 million pot, at least $300 million is set aside to pay damages to consumers. Another $100 million plus is to pay for credit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers have found a new piece of Android spyware that was likely developed by a Russian contractor that has been sanctioned for interfering with the 2016 U.S. Presidential elections. The spyware, called Monokle, has an amazing range of spying capabilities and can steal data, even without having root access on the phone. The spyware, distributed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Even though we keep telling people not to enable Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on Internet facing servers, a recent check showed there were still a million servers vulnerable. “In recent years, criminals deploying targeted ransomware like BitPaymer, Ryuk, Matrix, and SamSam have almost completely abandoned other methods of network ingress in favor of using […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FTC Approves $5 Billion Fine for Facebook The FTC commissioners reportedly approved an approximately $5 billion fine of Facebook for violating the 2011 consent decree in conjunction with the Cambridge Analytica mess. To put that in perspective, Facebook’s revenue just for 4th quarter of last year was $16.9 billion and their profit for that quarter […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All smartphones are data collection machines; hopefully everyone understands that. There are an amazing number of sensors on the device and many apps just ask for everything. If the user grants that, then the app can harvest all that data and likely sell it, either individually or in the aggregate. Researchers took a tiny sample […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let me first say that there is nothing illegal about what follows. You may not like it, but it is not illegal. Using a public records request, Motherboard obtained a user manual for the Palantir surveillance system called Gotham. The system is used by law enforcement around country (including, for example, New York, New Orleans, […]
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