US Warns That Iran Terrorists Broke into Multiple US Water Facilities Last week I reported that the Aliquippa, Pennsylvania Water Authority fessed up to the fact that hackers successfully broke into their network, compromising a pump station, using a vulnerability in an Israeli OT network system that is repackaged by multiple vendors. Now the FBI, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Real ID, a misguided effort by the feds to make everyone have a less easily fakeable driver’s license (notice I did not say a secure driver’s license) came out of the 9-11 attacks. For the last 20 years the feds have been trying to get the states to implement the law, with many states resisting […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No big surprise here. Researchers have gotten full read and write access to Meta’s Bloom, Meta-Llama and Pythia large language models in a typical example of supply chain risk. If they had been hackers or a non-friendly nation, they could have poisoned the training data, stolen the models and datasets and other unfriendly things. AI […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Montana and Indiana TikTok Ban Stunts Unsurprisingly Fail in Court Both Indiana and Montana passed laws completely banning TikTok – both at the app store and private citizen level. Given that these laws were political stunts designed to try and impress voters, it is not surprising that they failed in court. The courts struck down […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have long reported that hackers love to break into law firms. This is in part due to the fact that many law firms do not have good cybersecurity practices, especially small firms. The other part is that breaking into a law firm is like winning the lottery. Instead of getting one customer’s data, they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are advertising a service on the encrypted, Russian, messaging app Telegram that would let you buy a full identity for between $8 and $40. In crypto. The company, USiSLookups, a play on the data broker USInfoSearch, allows you to look up virtually anyone. In just a few moments. The Telegram channel includes a small […]
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