I will start with the spoiler – it is not. Pentesters and hackers now have a new tool in their arsenal to defeat two factor authentication. The tool was just released at the security conference Hack-In-The-Box and is now available on Github. Hackers had to get creative in order to attack web sites that were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Acting budget director Russel Vought is seeking to delay the ban of Huawei for another two years (or for a total of four years after the ban was enacted). If they are a risk to national security, is it okay to compromise national security for two more years? […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The security of all computers is dependent on three things: The Hardware The Operating System The Apps When it comes to the iPhone, Apple does a great job of making sure the hardware is secure. The Secure Enclave is the best in the industry and Apple spends a lot of money testing their hardware. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Privacy Act was introduced last month. Like California’s CCPA, it gives consumers more power over their data, but in addition to that, it would require companies to put their customer’s privacy before their own interests. I am sure that there will be a huge lobbying effort by special interests. While the sponsor is still […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over the weekend, Google suffered an outage that lasted about 4 hours. (See Google Appstatus Dashboard) The good news is that the outage happened on a Sunday afternoon because that reduced the impact of the outage. Next time it could happen on a Monday morning instead. The outage took down virtually every Google service at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Baltimore Ransomware Attack Could Be Blamed on the NSA I think this is what they call a tease. Technically correct, however. You may remember the NSA hacking tool that got out into the wild called EternalBlue? It was leaked by the hacking group ShadowBrokers in 2017. Before that, it exploited a Microsoft bug that the […]
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