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]Settlement Checks Coming for 2021 T-Mobile Breach In 2021 a T-Mobile breach exposed data on 76 million customers. This is separate from the 2023 breach that impacted 37 million customers. If you are one of them, you may be eligible for some money. But don’t celebrate yet. The settlement is for $350 million. If all […]
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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The UK is bracing for a fight with the White House over so-called free speech. Trying to do it quietly, hopefully. The British regulator Ofcom sent warning letters to several US technology companies telling them that Ofcom was about to enforce the UK’s Online Safety Act. Note that every country thinks that their free speech […]
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