Anonymous Gonna Rise Again. Question Mark? A hacker or hackers claiming to be affiliated the non-group Anonymous has posted a million documents coming from over 200 police departments and other law enforcement agencies. While the documents do no purport to show illegal activities, they are likely both embarrassing and also confidential. The fact that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If that headline doesn’t scare you, it should. Ripple20 is a family of 19 vulnerabilities that are part of a library that is used in medical devices, home automation devices, oil & gas controls, networking devices and other industrial control devices. The bugs are in a library that was developed in the 1990s and is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Vault 7 leak, in which Wikileaks posted information about a large number of CIA hacking tools was possibly the worst national security compromise the Agency has ever seen. Not only did it reveal our techniques for hacking foreign systems but the hackers repurposed those tools and hacked American and other friendly companies and governments. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Singapore Updates Contact Tracing App Singapore is not exactly a democracy, so this isn’t a complete surprise. They are updating their contact tracing app to include foreigner’s passport number and scanning of barcodes to facilitate tracking when someone enters a store or mall or restaurant. They would like the program to run in the background, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Five years after the Pentagon demanded that every weapon system include the requirement that it be able to function in the face of Russian and Chinese cyber attacks, many major weapons systems don’t even include cybersecurity as a key performance parameter, never mind actually working under those conditions. This means that all our adversaries need […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The day after Twitter fact checked two of Trump’s tweets regarding vote by mail as massively fraudulent, he issued an executive order to get even with them. What Trump would like to do is revoke Twitter and other social media sites’ protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, so that he and […]
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