The Great Crypto-Cop Brain Drain As if things weren’t hard enough for the cops, the ones that have been tracking down the bad crypto apples have discovered the grass is greener on the corporate side – a lot greener. And they are fleeing the government side, making things even harder for the remaining govies. Read […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When privacy advocates question the immense sharing of data with others, at least some of them say that they don’t care; they have nothing to hide. Perhaps that is true. I’m kind of on the other side there. I don’t want folks to share my info unless I say so. For the most part, we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have probably heard folks talking about nation states stealing our intellectual property. High on that list are China, North Korea, Iran and Russia. But there are many others; don’t think that those four are the only ones. Rarely, however, do we get an in depth look at how these operations work. The U.S. federal […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember Mastodon’s 1 Million Users Last Week – Now 6 Million Last week I reported that the open source distributed alterative to Twitter, Mastodon (sorry, mammoth, I misspelled it last week) now has 6 million. While that pales before Twitter’s 200 million, the growth curve is interesting. And because it is distributed, it will be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a draft report from the European Parliament, EU governments have used spyware on their citizens for political purposes and to cover up corruption and criminal activity. The 159 page report comes after revelations about the Pegasus Project. The Pegasus Project report is based on reporting by an international group of journalists and is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AstraZeneca Learns About Cloud Security – As Should You Apparently, AstraZeneca left credentials to an internal server on GitHub for over a year. The credentials granted access to a test SalesForce environment that contained patient data. Once TechCrunch told them about it, they made the repository private. Who found that repo, who found the credentials, […]
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