You hear about these stories over and over again – because they work. Federal authorities in Mexico arrested a serial seductress who, it is alleged, drugged and robbed elderly men over a three year period, in Las Vegas. She also seduced some younger men and some women. Mexican police arrested Aurora Phelps, 43, who’s accused […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has been warning everyone that cookies as a tracking mechanism were going away for a couple of years now. This is not because Google found a soul but rather because Google knows that browsers and users can block or trash cookies making them ineffective as a way to track where you go. In addition, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yet another challenge for the new administration. In the face of escalating cyber threats against the US maritime transportation system, the Coast Guard, which is responsible for maritime cybersecurity, doesn’t have a plan. The GAO released a report on a year long study that says, basically, not ready for prime time. The Russians, Chinese and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New reports are coming out about how to jailbreak Microsoft’s GitHub AI assistant to get it to do, well, bad things. Not a big surprise, of course. Researchers have discovered two new ways to manipulate GitHub’s artificial intelligence (AI) coding assistant, Copilot, enabling the ability to bypass security restrictions and subscription fees, train malicious models, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is the short version. AMD partner Asus disclosed a microcode bug before AMD has a patch developed. They posted a beta BIOS update that has since been removed. Remember that the BIOS gets loaded before the operating system, so any OS security tools are likely useless in blocking this. The good news is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A week after Fortinet announced a patch for a zero-day, there are still thousands of systems worldwide vulnerable. A week ago Shadowserver identified 52,000 networks at risk. Now that is down to 48,000 and change. In other words, not much patching is going on even though the media has been sounding the alarm all week. […]
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