According to the cyber security firm Trend Micro, the members of the U.S. Senate and their staff could be the next target of the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear – the same group linked to the DNC hack an election meddling across the Middle East and Europe. Trend says that digital breadcrumbs found so far […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is hard to believe that, in this day and age, people are still using faxes, but they are surprisingly popular, still, in businesses. And extremely error prone. There is no error checking mechanism in a fax machine. You type in a number, stick the pages in and they are transmitted to the other end. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NOTE: THE CONTENTS OF THIS POST MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS. A 28 year old Ohio man has been indicted for creating and installing malware on hundreds of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows computers. The man, Phillip Durachinsky, used the software to spy on people. This includes recording what the camera and microphone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2015 some 380 million international travelers arrived in the U.S. and only 8,503 of those travelers had their electronic devices searched – only .002 percent. That is a pretty small number. In 2016 there were 390 million international arrivals and CBP examined the devices of 19,033 of them – a little more than double […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Computer Cop is a piece of software that the maker sells to police departments for them to give out to the community. Departments buy thousands of copies, it appears for around $6 a copy ,and hands them out, hoping for donations. In some cases, they bought the software with seized drug money. There is only […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]21st Century Oncology, who bills itself as the world’s largest operator of cancer treatment centers with 179 locations, suffered a breach in 2015, losing control of 2+ million patient records. According to law firm Motley Rice, they found out about the breach when the FBI notified them – not a great way to start your […]
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