I keep saying this and will continue to say it until people understand. Cryptocurrency is merely software and software always has bugs. Governments try to stop people from counterfeiting paper money (and lots of other things) and that is only moderately successful. To the degree that it is successful, that is because it is hard […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IRS Text Spam No, that text message that you just got did not come from the IRS. In fact, text spam, also known as smishing, leveraging the IRS’s name is exploding. I am guessing that because people are scared of the IRS and hence, they will respond to the scam spam. IRS commissioner Chuck Rettig […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The hackers that breached outsource customer communications vendor Twilio earlier this month didn’t just compromise encrypted communications app vendor Signal. In fact, they compromised more than 130 companies and 10,000 employees. Why? because Twilio is a vendor to all of these companies and these companies trusted Twilio. And, apparently, Twilio’s security practices were not good […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Without regard to where you stand on gun control, the events in California last week are an IT and safety failure of massive proportions with no way to remedy the failure. Three days after the media reported the breach, the California Attorney General started dribbling out incorrect information about what happened. There is still no […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anonymous Seems to be doing Better Against Russia than Past Efforts Anonymous, the hacking collective, historically has made claims about how effective they are that have not panned out. However, against Russia, they seem to be pretty effective. Whether that means that they are more focused now or instead, that Russia’s defenses are not very […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Warns US Colleges of Widespread VPN Credential Leaks – On Russian Crime Forums Here’s a shocker. Cybersecurity practices at US colleges and universities are not so good. According to an FBI PIN (Color WHITE, general distribution), Russian cybercrime forums are offering network and VPN credentials for sale for many US higher education institutions, some […]
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