In a fight the likes of which we have not seen since the battle between Microsoft and the DoJ that ended around 20 years ago, the Justice Department sued Google this week, accusing it of using its market dominance to hobble its rivals. Just to be clear from the beginning, I am not a huge […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over the weekend, Google suffered an outage that lasted about 4 hours. (See Google Appstatus Dashboard) The good news is that the outage happened on a Sunday afternoon because that reduced the impact of the outage. Next time it could happen on a Monday morning instead. The outage took down virtually every Google service at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last Week Microsoft Announced Microsoft Azure Sentinel, a cloud based Security Information and Event Management System (SIEM) and a Threat Hunting and Analysis Service called Microsoft Threat Experts. As Ray and I discussed on a recent video, available on Youtube, the best outcome of that announcement is if Google and Amazon make a similar announcement. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect. The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No big surprise here really, but still disappointing. Researchers at Def Con last week reported that they had found 47 vulnerabilities in the firmware and default apps of 25 Android phones. When they talk firmware, I don’t think they really mean firmware. Rather, they mean the operating system like Android Oreo or Nougat, although it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has a interesting strategy. Build prototypes of products. Show them or leak them. See if anyone cares. Kill them if it doesn’t work out – there are lots of examples. After many users are already using them. One other thing that they do is attempt to lock users into the Google ecosystem. Of course. […]
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