This is an actual event, not a drill. SDIS 67 / Laurent Schoenferber SDIX 67 / Laurent Schoenferber The date is March 10,2021. The time is 12:40 AM. The location is an OVH data center on the west bank of the Rhine, where France borders Germany. The data center, a small one by today’s standards, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Downloads Soar After Signalgate While, possibly, the use of Signal in Washington may decrease, Signal says the number of downloads it is seeing is double the usual rate. Prior to Signalgate, Signal was already having a banner year, so this just makes it a double banner year. Maybe people think that if Signal is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US National Security Advisor Not So Good At Personal Security In light of “Signalgate”, reporters are looking for more breaches of security at the upper echelon of the president’s team. All of this is unclassified, but still sensitive. This includes National Security Advisor Waltz’s Venmo friend list (he has 328 friends), mobile phone numbers, email […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers replaced the NYU homepage with charts and links to large student datasets. The hacker CLAIMED he redacted personal data but a security expert said “not really”. The charts linked to four different databases that includes personal information on applicants to NYU. The security expert said the hacker did not redact the information correctly and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Humans **ARE** The Weak Link in Security North Korean hackers are tricking their victims into downloading a supposed patch for Zoom by convincing them that they have a meeting with an important venture capitalist and the reason you can’t hear him is a Zoom bug that they have a fix for. Of course, the fix […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday the president signed an EO planning a new National Resilience Strategy letting the states figure out how to protect themselves. This includes both cyber disasters and other physical disasters. The order says that state and local governments AND INDIVIDUALS play a “more active and significant role” in national resilience and preparedness. This comes after […]
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