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Cloud Service Providers Are Not Immune from Ransomware

You moved your applications to the cloud.  Now you don’t have to worry about managing IT systems.  The headaches are someone else’s. Well sort of. Here is what customers of Quickbooks cloud hosting provider iNSYNNQ are seeing when they try to log on: This is what they have been seeing for the last three days. […]

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Phone Apps Collect User Data Even If You Deny Permissions

All smartphones are data collection machines; hopefully everyone understands that.  There are an amazing number of sensors on the device and many apps just ask for everything.  If the user grants that, then the app can harvest all that data and likely sell it, either individually or in the aggregate. Researchers took a tiny sample […]

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Welcome to the Surveillance State

Let me first say that there is nothing illegal about what follows.  You may not like it, but it is not illegal. Using a public records request, Motherboard obtained a user manual for the Palantir surveillance system called Gotham. The system is used by law enforcement around country (including, for example, New York, New Orleans, […]

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Magecart, the Credit Card Stealing Monster, Is Alive and Well

In one research report researchers have discovered Magecart attacks affecting 17,000 web domains including some in the Alexa Top 2000.  You may remember that Magecart is what took down British Airways and likely caused them to be fined 183 million Pounds by the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. Magecart is not a single hacker or even […]

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