That is a scary statistic. It used to be that hackers lurked inside your systems for days, weeks and even months conducting surveillance. This increased the chance of detecting them before they did damage. Damage like we are seeing with newspaper conglomerate Lee Enterprises, publisher of 72 newspapers and 350 specialty publications. Lee has been […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Multiple Chinese hacking groups continue to go after US and other companies and agencies with, apparently, no consequences. China’s Salt Typhoon, who hacked a dozen or more major US telecom and Internet providers including Verizon and AT&T, is now using vulnerabilities in Cisco firewalls worldwide. In December and January the Chinese government hackers successfully broke […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk Aides With No Government or Cybersecurity Expertise Play Critical Roles at OPM Six young engineers, all under age 24 and one just out of high school, with no government or cybersecurity experience, are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) project, gaining unrestricted access to computer systems at the Office […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is TikTok for Sale? Maybe! Mark Cuban says the number being floated around is more than $300 billion. It is unclear if this is for TikTok US or TikTok worldwide. And maybe Musk might buy it. Given how well he did with his purchase of Twitter, if he does buy it for $300 billion, Cuban […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Data broker Gravy Analytics lost control of their location data database, affecting the privacy of millions. The hacker has published a “sample” of 30 million location records. Remember, 30 million represents just a sample; we don’t know who much data was stolen in total. The data released includes location data from fitness, health, dating, transit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Orleans Truck Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Bans to Surveil French Quarter An advertising executive once said all publicity was good. I don’t think he understands terrorism. The FBI has revealed footage from the attacker’s Meta glasses that he took while going through the French Quarter on a bicycle. Not exactly the “use case” Meta wants […]
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