Missouri Prosecutor Wisely Decides Governor is not Tech Smart Remember when the governor got his feeling hurt after a St. Louis newspaper revealed that the education department’s website was publishing the PII of tens of thousands of teachers and asked the Highway Patrol to prosecute the reporter who embarrassed him? The PII was, as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Decreased Account Takeovers by 50% by Mandating 2FA Late last year Google forced about a hundred fifty million users to start using multi-factor authentication. What results did they see? Account takeovers in that group were reduced by 50%. Google has previously said that only 10% of their users were using MFA. Now they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Biden May Use China Rule on Russia if it Invades Ukraine This COULD be a bluff, but the administration may use the foreign direct product rule on Russia, like they did on Huawei, if Russia invades Ukraine. Depending on how it is used, it could have crushing implications on anything in Russia that uses microchips. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IoT – Internet of Things – devices are great. Whether it is Siri telling you the score of a sporting event or your refrigerator telling you to buy more milk, it makes life easier. But there is a problem with them. Many of you know that I am not a real advocate of smart whatevers, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bootkits are designed to be undetectable but typically you can reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system or, worst case, you can replace the hard drive to disinfect the computer. But wait, there is more. Security researchers from Kaspersky. the Russian cybersecurity company that we can never figure out who’s side they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Arrests Some REvil Gang Members At this point we don’t know who they ticked off, but Putin’s goons arrested 14 people and seized 426 million Roubles (about $5.5 million), $600,000 USD, 500,000 euros, computers and 20 cars. These guys definitely will not be getting a Christmas card from Vlad next year. Credit: Yahoo News […]
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