Senate Passes Legislation to Protect Against Deep Fakes While I agree that deep fakes – photos and videos that use tech to make it look like someone is saying something or doing something that they never did – can be nasty, is that really the best use of the Senate’s time right now? In any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apparently Walmart has been selling an affordable Jetstream router. Affordable, apparently, because it has a back door in it that would allow hackers to not only control the router, but also all of the computers on your network. But Walmart is not alone. Wavlink routers sold on Amazon also have back doors. In this case […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oracle POS Back Door Discovered Oracle bought the Micros Point of Sale System a few years ago and now needs to deal with the challenges from that. The newest challenge is a modular back door that affects the 3700 POS series. It is used by hundreds of thousands of hotels, restaurants, bars and other hospitality […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think that in 2020 we wouldn’t have to tell people not to use default passwords. You would certainly think that we wouldn’t have to tell government IT folks not to do that. But if you thought that, apparently, you would have thought wrong. We are still telling end users to change the password […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The “S” in Coworking Stands for Security While the WSJ says that coworking companies are closing money losing spaces as a result of Covid, don’t forget that coworking spaces are about as secure as airport WiFi, meaning not at all. The local news just said that some coworking companies are actually expanding as people want […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a bit like the old question “are you still beating your spouse?” In order to answer that you would have to admit that you had been doing it previously. The NSA, as far as I know, hasn’t admitted to placing back doors in tech products but there is a lot of information that […]
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