Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act allows the intelligence community to collect intelligence on non-Americans outside the United States without a warrant. As the intelligence community hoovers up huge quantities of data (they just built a new facility in Utah so that they could bring enough storage online to hold all the data), […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Russian hacker has confessed in court to hacking the DNC during last year’s election. The Russian web site that is reporting this has not been friendly to Putin, so there are lots of dimensions to this conversation. The web site says that Konstantin Kozlovsky stated that he was doing this on the direction of Russian […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GCHQ, the British version of the NSA created a program around 2008 that hacked into Yahoo’s network and captured stills of video chats being conducted by Yahoo users. So as not to overload GCHQ’s servers, the software only stored one image per video session every 5 minutes. Still, in a 6 month period, they captured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one on the Internet – at least most of the time. The Uber Waymo trade secret theft trial is being delayed once again. Why? Because the Department of Justice showed the Judge a 37 page letter from the lawyer of a former […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written about the troubles of Cottage Health System in California. They were breached and the protected Health Information of at least 32,000 patients was compromised. The situation was that they had outsourced the storage of patient records to InSync, which by itself is not a problem, but InSync made this data available on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The British shipping company Clarksons was hacked and decided not to pay the ransom. So far, nothing new. No ransom, no data. Well, maybe, they had backups that they could restore – and thumb their nose at the hackers. I think this is becoming a bigger problem for hackers. As a result, hackers are changing […]
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