Passkeys are a replacement for passwords and, in general, are way more secure. They use encryption to validate who you are in a different way than HTTPS does. With passkeys, you don’t type in a password. Instead the website and your device create a digital handshake that only works from your device and with that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware as a Chaos Mechanism This version of ransomware doesn’t require much skill. Rather than encrypting files and demanding a ransom, they are just deleting as many files as possible and watching the chaos with some popcorn and beer. Even if the company has good backups, and many don’t, it can still cause downtime, supply […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have probably heard of AI hallucinations – when the AI makes things up. Sometimes the risk is low, but other times, not so much. Slowly the courts are weighing in on the subject. In Moffatt v. Air Canada, the plaintiff asked for information about the airline’s bereavement policy. The chatbot told him he could […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems simple, right? You pay for a cloud application to do something – or maybe it is free and you assume the vendor is responsible for the security of your data. Turns out, it is not quite that simple. In fact, far from it. Identity attacks – where the attacker somehow compromises an account, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the entire US Senate was briefed this week about the Chinese attack called Salt Typhoon on US and other telecom and Internet carriers, the feds are trying to figure out what to do. This is going to be the job of the next administration because I doubt Congress can create a solution in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The United States has historically had a “challenging” supply chain. It has, for at least decades, depended on supplies from counties that are either not stable or not friendly or neither. While we have worked to try to REDUCE that dependency, we are very far from eliminating it. Yesterday the President ratcheted up the curbs […]
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