The FBI has said for years that paying a ransomware ransom was a bad idea. It encourages the bad guys and funds their bad guy activities. But last week the decision became harder when the Treasury department said that they were going to add ransomware organizations that are connected to terrorist organizations to the list […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Republican administration, led by the current occupant of the White House has been trying for years to remove the protections that social media companies like Twitter and Facebook have. They seem to have a couple of hot buttons. One is end to end encryption which makes it hard for them to snoop on your […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]False Claims Act Means Big Fines I had heard about the Department of Justice going after companies for misrepresenting things in federal contracts. I remember that Cisco paid a fine of less than $10 million, so I didn’t think it really meant much. But in a press release, the DoJ says that they recovered over […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are a number of obvious ways like compromising the election software that voters use to vote, but that is likely to be hard to do. They are spreading disinformation which may cause Americans to not trust the election process and therefore not vote. That is much easier to do and some of our elected […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is no easy answer, but I can tell you for sure that the FBI has been applying more and more resources to cybecrime every year. Just this month they unsealed seven indictments charging 16 people from China, Russia, Iran and Malaysia with hacking crimes. Treasury sanctioned 45 people associated with Iran and two people […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With elections less than two months away and lots of stories about election hacking, what is the real story. Unfortunately, the real story is classified so even if I did know, which I don’t, I couldn’t tell you. The government won’t admit that straight out, but they know a whole lot more than they are […]
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