White House Proposes Ban of Chinese, Russian Connected Vehicles and Software The Department of Commerce on Monday announced it is proposing a rule which would ban the sale or import of connected vehicles containing specific software and hardware produced by China or Russia or with a “sufficient nexus” to them. While it has national security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a bit scary and something I know way too much about. Back in the dark ages, I worked on a team that developed the first first GPS system – for the Air Force. It was not designed to help you find the nearest Starbucks, but rather to protect Air Force personnel from our […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I know I sound like a broken record, but as businesses start to improve their internal security, attackers focus on compromising businesses’ supply chains. In the case of the Hezbollah attack, the attackers must have, some how, known (a) that they were buying new walkie-talkies and pagers, (b) who they were buying them from, (c) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tennessee School District Sends $3 Mil to “Money Mules” – Mules May Wind Up With Felony Convictions Hopefully the US Attorney is a nice person and realizes that these people were just pawns in the game. $3 million later, they caught the ringleader, who also was a pawn – for his supposed fiancé – whom […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Historically, we have physical universe attacks like Columbine or Gaza and the many variants in between. Then we have the cyber universe attacks like Caesar’s Casino and Crowdstrike (which was a cyber incident but not an attack). But more recently, we have begun to see cyber-physical attacks. The Colonial Pipeline attack that shut down the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unregistered Crypto Trading Platform Settles with the SEC the eToro stock and crypto trading platform settled with the SEC for $1.5 million and agreed to restrict their services for US customers. They were charged with running and unregistered broker and unregistered clearing agency. The feds are slow and there are a lot of crooks, but […]
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