CEO of Election Software Company Arrested on Personal-Data Theft Charges Here here is one that seems to have some facts behind it. Los Angeles has charged Konnect founder Eugene Yu with theft of PII and computer hard drives. Konnect is required to keep the data on POLL WORKERS that they are storing in the United […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I keep saying this and will continue to say it until people understand. Cryptocurrency is merely software and software always has bugs. Governments try to stop people from counterfeiting paper money (and lots of other things) and that is only moderately successful. To the degree that it is successful, that is because it is hard […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a case of technology getting ahead of the law. There are existing federal laws that cover credit card fraud, debit card fraud and check fraud. These are all different laws with slightly different rules, but, for the most part, the law says that if you report the fraud quickly enough (the time varies […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IRS Text Spam No, that text message that you just got did not come from the IRS. In fact, text spam, also known as smishing, leveraging the IRS’s name is exploding. I am guessing that because people are scared of the IRS and hence, they will respond to the scam spam. IRS commissioner Chuck Rettig […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a survey of 2,000 people by Consumer Reports (CR), whom I consider relatively unbiased on the media scale, people are paying attention. I think it is a combination of factors, but I will take what I can get. CR says that 88% of the people said that they use strong password (8 characters […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why You Should Wear Contacts While on Video Conferences Researchers in Michigan and China have demonstrated their ability to read what is on your screen while you are on a video conference with 75% accuracy with text as small as 10 mm and a relatively low resolution 720 p camera. Credit: The Register Crooks are […]
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