Sam Bankman-Fried demonstrated what happens when you combine unfathomable amounts of money and no regulation. It isn’t pretty. Binance moves $12 billion a day and has no physical office. What could possibly go wrong? Since the SEC was asleep at the wheel when FTX collapsed, leaving a lot of customers high and dry – since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dutch Data Protection Authorities Looking Into Alleged Tesla Data Breach Germany’s Handelsblatt reported on Thursday that Tesla (TSLA.O) had allegedly failed to adequately protect data belonging to customers, employees and business partners, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower. The Dutch DPA is looking into the situation. Among the data is Elon’s Social plus […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I say “help”, I mean that only in the kindest of terms, such as placing the company under a 20 year monitoring program, among other assistance. In this case, a company called Easy Healthcare has a free ovulation tracking app. As most of you well know, if it is free, you are the product. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI, NSA, CISA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the UK (AKA the US and the Five-Eyes Countries) issued a joint advisory on Chinese cyber tactics in light of the Guam critical infrastructure attack. Living off the Land means an attack that uses existing, already installed, vendor signed software to launch an attack and maintain […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The feds have upped the game and are going after companies that get breached that do not have effective cybersecurity programs. In this case, practice management software vendor Professional Business Systems, Inc. The company, who does business under the name Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions failed to install a firewall patch in January 2019. That failure […]
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