Over a million drones have been sold to the hobby market in the U.S. alone. Some have been sold with more nefarious purposes intended. To make matters worse, the FAA expects that number to triple – to over 4 million drones – by 2021. Drones are used by farmers to manage their fields, to inspect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about the problem of fake cell towers in DC. Well, the story has some interesting twists and turns. First, the largest maker of these devices (at least as best we know) is Harris Corp., maker of the Stingray family. Harris has been so closed mouthed about them that they have made […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook is used to riding high. Not so much lately. First they said that Cambridge Analytica inappropriately captured the data of 47 million users after 250,000 or so users completed a survey and they captured the information of all of those people’s friends without their permission. Now they are saying that their arithmetic wasn’t so […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Internet of Things is the newest fad. Today I heard about Internet connected sneakers. Apparently, you can change the design at will. Given that and the lack of any liability of the part of the software developer no matter what happens (when was the last time a software developer was sued for writing a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Times is reporting that The Hudson’s Bay Company that owns Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor confirmed that some number of stores run under these names and also Saks Off 5th were hacked and 5 million credit cards are available to be sold on the black market. The breach is one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DHS released a report this week regarding BOD 16-02. A BOD or Binding Operational Directive is DHS’s way of telling executive branch agencies that they have to do something. Like really. In this case the issue is that hackers were abusing bugs in Internet routers, specifically Cisco routers. Why Cisco? Because they are the biggest […]
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