The U.S. Federal Cyberspace Solarium Commission issued its long awaited report last week and warned of a “catastrophic attack that leaves the nation in tatters”. While right now everyone is worried about Covid-19, this represents a longer term problem that won’t be fixed in a few months. The report creates a vivid hypothetical attack and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the Corona Virus Covid-19 continues to do it’s thing, it has already revealed a lot of uncomfortable truths – no doubt part of the reason the market has reacted the way it has. So what are some of the things are we are seeing: Large entertainment events such as SXSW and Cochella are being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Attorney General Barr and FBI Director Wray have been lobbying strongly for companies such as Facebook and Google to add backdoors to their cryptography so that they can eavesdrop on conversations when they need to. But there are problems with backdoors to encryption. Mostly, you cannot control who uses them. Case in point Huawei. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s Encrypt Became Let’s Revoke and Then Let’s Confuse Let’s encrypt sent out an alert early this week that they were going to revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on March 4th. That was going to happen because of a software bug on their part which meant that they possibly issued certificates when they should not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In spring 2018 Chenoa Cooper started writing addresses down on slips of paper and her friends knew that if she was running late, she couldn’t warn them. That is because she would leave her phone at home, it had become an abuse machine. Graphic sexual photos and videos of her had been posted online. Posted […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Behind Cyberattacks on Country of Georgia Last Year The State Department and the UK say that Russia was behind the attack on over ten thousand websites in the Country of Georgia last year. They also formally attributed Sandworm (AKA Voodoo Bear, Telebots and BlackEnergy) to Russia’s GRU Unit 74455. Sandworm is the group responsible […]
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