Is Russia Reining-In Ransomware? Historically, if you are a ransomware hacker you are in heaven in Russia as long as you don’t attack targets favored by the Kremlin. Putin has arrested, unexpectedly, Mikhail Pavlovich Matveev, a famous Russian hacker who was indicted in the U.S. He paid a fine and had to give Putin a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google researchers have figured out how to break AMD’s processor security allowing them to load any processor microcode of their choosing. They demonstrated this by loading microcode that had the chip produce the number 4 every time when asked for a random number. In theory, only AMD (for their chips) or Intel (for theirs) should […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has revealed that just in the past year dozens of hacking groups in two dozen countries have been detected using Google’s AI agent Gemini to write malware, look for vulnerabilities and target organizations for attack. Among other nefarious tasks. Hackers have used regular Google for years to profile organizations, so that is not really […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The US has been trying to reign in China’s thefts of intellectual property and other bad behavior by putting tech sanctions on them. The next president wants to increase sanctions on China. Will it work? Huawei, China’s leading phone maker was seriously impacted over the last 2-3 years over the restriction of US made chips. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Can Vendors Enforce License Agreements for Kids on Parents? Ed Tech vendors (those companies that sell tech to schools for use by their students) apparently sell your kid’s data and think that because the school agreed to some terms that implicitly binds the parents. In one case, the court said no. I didn’t know that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]
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