From a sales and branding perspective, the last thing that smart home device manufacturers (think Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and a raft of other) want you to worry about is whether the Feds are snarfing up your data. We do know of a few highly publicized cases like asking for smart water heater […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seema Verma, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services wants fax machines out of doctor’s offices by 2020. She wants them out of doctor’s offices because they are not cool. She wants to replace them with super-non-secure apps for your phone that are way […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In what is thought to be the first country to do this, travelers entering New Zealand who do not turn over their phone passwords during searches could be arrested, prosecuted and fined more than $3,000. This includes citizens and foreigners. A New Zealand customs spokesperson said that the new fine is an appropriate remedy to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ancient Chinese Proverb: May You Live In Interesting Times. Well welcome to interesting times. Today, Facebook said that the accounts of 50 million users were compromised. The hackers compromised the security “tokens” that Facebook uses to authenticate users and not the passwords themselves. Facebook revoked those users “tokens” to stop them from continuing to be used. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Web Attack Will Crash Your iPhone, iPad or Mac A new CSS-based web attack will crash and restart your i-device with just 15 lines of code. The code exploits a weakness in iOS’ web rendering engine WebKit, which Apple mandates all apps and browsers use. Anything that renders HTML on iOS is affected. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In June Governor Brown signed Assembly Bill 375, the California Consumer Privacy Act which is the only law in the country that offers consumers far more control over their data in the hands of third parties such as Internet based companies. Now AB 1906 is headed to Governor Brown to sign. If he does, and […]
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