Law enforcement agencies around the world have been whining about the “going dark” problem at least since the early 1990s when they tried really hard to put Phil Zimmerman in jail for creating encryption that mere mortals could use. There is no question that bad folks use encryption to hide stuff, but good folks also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well if that isn’t depressing …. Experts warn that medical-device security is a chronic problem, now exacerbated by COVID-era healthcare challenges. Hospitals have been forced to prioritize budgets and staffing to focus on lifesaving care – meaning that IT security often takes a back seat. Adding insult to injury, hackers are aware of this, and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Bulk Energy Providers Must Report Attempted Breaches The Solar Winds attack, from what little we know about it, was bad enough, but what if it was Russia’s trial run for taking down the power grid like they did in Ukraine or taking out the water supply or gas supply? NERC, the electric utility regulator, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DNS, that service that converts www.Foxnews.com (or whatever) to 23.39.41.42 is one of the last bits of the Internet that is not encrypted. Or at least it was. Google and others have developed two different solutions to encrypt DNS – DNS over TLS and DNS over HTTPS. These are variations of each other and I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, so Teams is not a verb. But neither was Google, as in go Google it. Hackers have figured out that as people are just learning about collaboration software like Teams and Slack, there is a lot of squishiness around the edges. Say you are part of a Teams group that includes employees, contractors and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This one is gonna get a little geeky, so if that is not your cup of tea, but can just skip this post knowing that the feds did not shut down cell service to keep the crowd from communicating; the crowd did it to itself. Many people reported that they had no cell service as […]
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