Swatting, the very illegal and sometimes deadly practice of making a prank call to 911 in attempt to get SWAT police to storm a building is apparently on the rise. The premise is often that someone is holding a hostage or threatening to murder someone which puts the cops in a no win situation. If […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As we get closer to the January 31st deadline for the UK to sort of kind of leave the EU, the bill that the PM’s side so carefully drafted may or may not hold together. Over the last two days, the House of Lords voted against Johnson 5 times, forcing the bill back to the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Orphaned Data in the Cloud Researchers at security firm vpnMentor found an unsecured S3 bucket with passport, tax forms, background checks, job applications and other sensitive data for thousands of employees of British consultancies. Many of the firms involved are no longer in business. The researchers reported this to Amazon and the UK’s Computer Emergency […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not a done deal yet, but it is a very interesting development and one, if it holds, that could have significant impact on a lot of countries, including the U.S. Over the last few years, a number of countries have enacted laws that allow their intelligence apparatuses to override many privacy laws and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DoD continues to take actions that lead us to believe that they are very serious about the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification process. This process will require that all DoD contractors ultimately get a third party cybersecurity certification on an annual basis if they want to continue to be part of the DoD food chain. When […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
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