Welcome 2023! Hopefully, it will be better for cybersecurity. Hopefully. More FTX Cybercrime The DoJ has launched yet another criminal probe in the bizarre FTX bankruptcy. This represents about $375 million out of the billions lost, but it looks like this theft took place right after the bankruptcy became public. Credit: MSN Slack Joins Okta […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Also get ready to patch your Infiniti, Nissan, Acura, Mercedes, Genesis, Ford, Toyota, Jaguar, Kia, Honda and Land Rover. As car makers attach more bells and whistles to your new car, assume a steady stream of recalls. The problem is that the car makers are not patching older cars, so they will remain vulnerable until […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Louisiana law now makes it a crime for web sites serving content harmful to minors to install age verification technology, but only for users who are in Louisiana. The law became effective on January 1st. The law says that any web site that intentionally publishes or distributes material harmful to minors shall be held […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Source code is getting hacked more frequently these days. In March, Samsung announced that hackers had stolen source code to their Galaxy phones. Also in March, Microsoft said that hackers stole the source code for Bing, Maps and Cortana. In May Mercedes admitted that they had misconfigured a source code repository and anyone could download […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For you military types, BLUF (Bottom Line Up Front): probably not. There are a number of reasons for my pessimism, including one I hadn’t considered. First the obvious reasons. The end of this legislative session is right around the corner and there are a lot of things that the folks in power want to get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have never done this before; there is always a first time. I am going to copy an FBI warning here verbatim (minus some formatting changes inherent in the blog format). The short version is that hackers are using Google and ads to attack you. Also, we do sell some technical solutions that will assist […]
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