The United States Department of Justice has charged 9 Iranian nationals for theft of intellectual property from hundreds of colleges and universities, dozens of U.S. companies, Federal agencies, state governments and the United Nations. DoJ Values the theft to be IN EXCESS OF THREE BILLION DOLLARS. That is likely a very conservative number. The defendants […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This time, the data that Facebook is mining is your call data and your text message data. But there is a difference. In this case, Facebook says that it asked permission when you installed Messenger or Facebook Lite. However, the default was to collect the data and it was not very clear to users that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Meltdown and Spectre, the twin vulnerabilities affecting Intel and many other processors, has been a moving target. Patches followed by “unpatches” when those patches caused computers to reboot randomly. Then there were the software patches that slowed down computers by from 5% to 30%. The process of mitigating these vulnerabilities has been way more complicated […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Orbitz announced today that hackers accessed customer data including credit cards submitted to one of their websites between January 2016 and June 2016 and data on an Orbitz partner web site between January 2016 and December 2017 – two years worth of data. They estimate it to be around 880,000 cards, but they, apparently, don’t […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like we are seeing this again and again – a vendor sets up some Amazon storage and sticks some data in it. Sometimes the vendor forgets about it or the employee responsible for it leaves and the data is basically orphaned. In this case the data was new, so it was not orphaned. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With all the news lately about the Russians trying to change the outcome of the elections (like, I might add, the U.S. has been trying to do around the world for decades – think of the Shah in Iran, the Congo elections, Chile and many others – see here), the real question is can the […]
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