The hackers that breached outsource customer communications vendor Twilio earlier this month didn’t just compromise encrypted communications app vendor Signal. In fact, they compromised more than 130 companies and 10,000 employees. Why? because Twilio is a vendor to all of these companies and these companies trusted Twilio. And, apparently, Twilio’s security practices were not good […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starting in March 2023, Lloyd’s will REQUIRE all its agents to exclude liability for losses from state sponsored cyberattacks. The problem is defining what is a state sponsored attack. In a bulletin to its producers last week, Lloyd’s says that it remains strongly supportive of its agents writing cyber policies, it is concerned that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Defcon Hacker Hacks Deere Tractor to Play Doom The right to repair folks and some manufacturers have been at odds for years regarding right to repair. John Deere has really be anti-right. This year a researcher demoed hacking a tractor and getting it to play Doom on the main display. Credit: Hackread Monero Developers “Fork” […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to get a lot of good news when it comes to cybersecurity. Here is one good story. Katie Yates received some nude photos of a friend, Natalie Claus (normally we don’t use names, but these women are working hard to make a point that there is nothing to be ashamed of and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Windows 11 May Damage Data on Some CPUs Microsoft issued a warning that computers that use the Vector AES instruction set might damage data , but they don’t say how or why. Microsoft says fixes in June and May prevent further damage but the result is that encryption is much slower after the patch. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Small businesses especially, seem to be realizing, finally, that consumers don’t want to be the “product”. After Apple changed the rules last year to require businesses to get permission to track users’ behavior and share their information, things changed. The biggies – Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are estimating that they will lose $18 billion in […]
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