Apple is preparing to add a new prompt to iOS that requires users to opt-in to tracking by app developers like Facebook. It used to be that you could opt-out — if you could find the place to do that. Facebook is going to have its own screen telling you how wonderful it is to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well if that isn’t depressing …. Experts warn that medical-device security is a chronic problem, now exacerbated by COVID-era healthcare challenges. Hospitals have been forced to prioritize budgets and staffing to focus on lifesaving care – meaning that IT security often takes a back seat. Adding insult to injury, hackers are aware of this, and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Bulk Energy Providers Must Report Attempted Breaches The Solar Winds attack, from what little we know about it, was bad enough, but what if it was Russia’s trial run for taking down the power grid like they did in Ukraine or taking out the water supply or gas supply? NERC, the electric utility regulator, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DNS, that service that converts www.Foxnews.com (or whatever) to 23.39.41.42 is one of the last bits of the Internet that is not encrypted. Or at least it was. Google and others have developed two different solutions to encrypt DNS – DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. These are variations of each other and I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, so Teams is not a verb. But neither was Google, as in go Google it. Hackers have figured out that as people are just learning about collaboration software like Teams and Slack, there is a lot of squishiness around the edges. Say you are part of a Teams group that includes employees, contractors and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First Apple and Google removed the Parler app from both of their app stores. Then Amazon kicked them off Amazon’s AWS platform for violating their terms of service. That would seem like a problem for most companies, but that was the good part of their week. Yesterday a security researcher who goes by the nickname […]
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