US National Security Advisor Not So Good At Personal Security In light of “Signalgate”, reporters are looking for more breaches of security at the upper echelon of the president’s team. All of this is unclassified, but still sensitive. This includes National Security Advisor Waltz’s Venmo friend list (he has 328 friends), mobile phone numbers, email […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers replaced the NYU homepage with charts and links to large student datasets. The hacker CLAIMED he redacted personal data but a security expert said “not really”. The charts linked to four different databases that includes personal information on applicants to NYU. The security expert said the hacker did not redact the information correctly and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Humans **ARE** The Weak Link in Security North Korean hackers are tricking their victims into downloading a supposed patch for Zoom by convincing them that they have a meeting with an important venture capitalist and the reason you can’t hear him is a Zoom bug that they have a fix for. Of course, the fix […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday the president signed an EO planning a new National Resilience Strategy letting the states figure out how to protect themselves. This includes both cyber disasters and other physical disasters. The order says that state and local governments AND INDIVIDUALS play a “more active and significant role” in national resilience and preparedness. This comes after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Laws are interesting. You may remember a few years ago when the FCC started fining telecom companies for allowing spam phone calls. Almost overnight the companies were able to flag “suspicious” or “suspected spam” calls. Money talks. In Australia, a new law makes banks, social media and telecom carriers LIABLE for scams. The law, called […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk’s Grok AI Says 75%-85% Probability That Trump is a Russian Asset Some of you are probably old enough to remember Art Linkletter’s “Kids Say The Darnedest Things”. Grok is like that, apparently. Responding to a prompt from a journalist, Grok, the Maximally Truth Seeking AI, according to Musk, says that there is a 75% […]
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