What Does $50,000 in iPads Get You? The answer may be a prison sentence for bribery. The case is going back and forth, but now the case is back on. The head of Apple security wanted some concealed carry permits for his team and since the process wasn’t going as fast as Apple would like, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Web scraping is a time honored tradition. Everyone does it. Just not at the scale that companies like Google, Facebook and Microsoft do it. Some people say that data is the new oil. If true, that means if you have more data than the other team, you will win. AI for example, needs to train […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Warns Other Countries Hack Satellites Like We Do Last week I wrote about US Space Force bragging that they set up a new team to hack adversaries satellites and ground infrastructure. This week the Air Force and NCSC published an advisory that, guess what, other countries are doing the same thing and if the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Chair of the House Oversight Committee’s cybersecurity subpanel says the bill, titled the Federal Cybersecurity Vulnerability Reduction Act, would play a crucial role in protection the nation’s digital infrastructure. The bill doesn’t actually require federal contractors to improve security. Instead, it will require all federal contractors, potentially even 1 person companies, to set up […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NIST Special Publication 800-171 is the guide that all defense contractors must follow for protecting controlled unclassified information. It has been around since 2015 and has gone over several revisions. Revision 3 is the most recent and NIST has released the “initial public draft”. Expect a final draft this fall and a released version in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Most of us have either used or seen others use that badges to unlock doors either at homes or offices. Most of these use a technology called Wiegand Wire. Compared to your average key, it is more secure and it does leave an audit trail, but the badges are easily cloned using devices available on […]
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