I am not sure who we should be more concerned about – us or them. The Georgia Secretary of State, who is also running for Governor, has accused the Democrats of unsuccessfully trying to hack the state’s election system and referred it to the FBI. Propublica is reporting that Kemp, the Secretary of State, quietly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Israeli Researchers have disclosed two new Bluetooth attacks that only require you to be in the neighborhood to work. The attacks exploit flaws in Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) chips made by Texas Instruments. The chips are used by companies like Cisco, Meraki and Aruba in their corporate solutions. The chips are also used in pacemakers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Three news items today – different platforms, but one common message. #1 – A new iPhone passcode bypass was found within hours of the release of iOS 12.1. This follows on from the passcode bypass fixed in 12.0 and another iPhone passcode bypass in 12.0.1. As iOS becomes more bloated (or feature rich, depending on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft got into a bit of trouble earlier this month when some folks who installed the Windows 10 update got a bit of surprise when it deleted all of the user’s documents. It took Microsoft a while to admit that it was their fact, thereby increasing the damage, but they did remove the offending update […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]From a sales and branding perspective, the last thing that smart home device manufacturers (think Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and a raft of other) want you to worry about is whether the Feds are snarfing up your data. We do know of a few highly publicized cases like asking for smart water heater […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Parental controls are generally a good thing. Except when it blocks the wrong sites and lets the bad sites through. So what is Apple doing in this case? Sites that are blocked: Scarleteen and O.school, which are sex education sites and Teen Vogue. Sites that are OK: The Daily Stormer, a neo-nazi site that publishes […]
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