Biden Admin Moves to Halt All Exports to Huawei The Biden administration is continuing to tighten the grip on China. The feds have stopped approving licenses for the export of most items to Huawei, according to the Financial Times. The end game is for a total ban on sales to Huawei. Credit: BBC Popular Derivatives […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New York Gov Signs Right to Repair Law While industry lobbyists have done their best to water down New York’s right to repair law (and they were relatively successful at it), it is a start. It goes into effect in July, 2023 and while it excludes electronics used in government and schools, has other ridiculous […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]T-Mobile recently admitted yet another data breach. This time it compromised 37 million customers. The attack used – or abused – one of T-Mobile’s APIs. Dedicated readers probably remember that I warned about the abuse of APIs last week. It is a growing problem because companies are not paying enough attention to API security. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What Could Possibly Go Wrong – Cali’s Digital License Plates Hacked A team of security researchers managed to gain “super administrative access” into Reviver, the company behind California’s new digital license plates which launched last year. That access allowed them to track the physical GPS location of all Reviver customers and change a section of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Welcome 2023! Hopefully, it will be better for cybersecurity. Hopefully. More FTX Cybercrime The DoJ has launched yet another criminal probe in the bizarre FTX bankruptcy. This represents about $375 million out of the billions lost, but it looks like this theft took place right after the bankruptcy became public. Credit: MSN Slack Joins Okta […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Tells Its 300,000 Customers That Impact of Ransomware was Limited Due to Their Great Incident Response (Not?) In what can only be called an amazing expression of tone-deafness, Rackspace says that due to their great incident response program, only their exchange users were shut down due to a ransomware attack. Needless to say, the […]
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