The hacker business is like any other business. There are specialists. In the hacking business, one of the specialties is initial access. Initial access brokers break in to businesses and “collect” credentials. They don’t use those credentials. That is a different specialty. Researchers say that they studied Russian language hacker forums for a few months […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2008 a group of MIT students were going to present a paper at the hacking convention Defcon on vulnerabilities in the Boston Transit (called the MBTA) fare card. The MBTA sued Defcon and the presentation was cancelled. But not before the slides for the presentation were published online. While this is an alternative to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Police Don’t Know Who Accessed Data Posted in Error This is somewhat hard to believe while at the same time all too common. Would your company do any better. Police in Northern Ireland posted the entire country’s police roster in response to a freedom of information request – by accident. Even though they took it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Bing Chat, there were 15.6 million cars and light trucks sold in the US in 2013, 16.5 million in 2014, 17+ million in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, but only 14 million in 2020 and 13 million in 2021 and 2022. But something else changed between 2013 and 2022. By 2022 almost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On Sunday the media reported that Zoom quietly changed it’s terms of service – last March. The operative changes includes these words: In a detailed perusal of the newly updated terms, two sections – 10.2 and 10.4 – stand out for their broad-ranging implications on how Zoom is permitted to utilize user data. These sections establish Zoom’s rights to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zelle is one of the most recent incarnations in peer to peer payments. Peer to peer payments are ones that allow you to directly transfer money from one person’s bank account (the sender) to another’s (the receiver). Competitors to Zelle include PayPal, Venmo, Popmoney and CashApp. The difference with Zelle is that it is owned […]
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