In the wake of the recent London Bridge terrorist attack using a truck as a weapon, British Prime Minister Theresa May has renewed her desire for software vendors to provide her with an encryption backdoor so that British law enforcement can look at messages from iPhones and Facebook’s Whatsapp, among other software. In the U.S., […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have heard from two big name firms who succumbed to the recent Petya/NotPetya ransomware attack and they provide interesting insights into dealing with the attack. First a quick background. A week ago the world was coming to grips with a new ransomware attack. Initially called Petya because it looked like a strain of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week the German Parliament passed a law that allows hack your computer or phone when investigating anything from murder to betting fraud and many other crimes. How would this work? It would allow police to covertly install software on your computer or phone that allows police to siphon data off your phone. Whether that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The universe is an interesting place. While the Senate and House, among others, are trying to figure out how much damage Russia did during last year’s election cycle, Cisco and others are sharing their source code with the people who supposedly hacked us. Seem strange? It is! Here is the story. For some countries, including […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Anthem Blue Cross, you likely remember, was one of the first “Blues” to admit that they had lost control of the data on their subscribers to the tune of around 79 million people. After Anthem admitted that, a number of other insurance companies – both Blues and others – admitted that they, too, had been […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Back in April, General Kelly, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, in Congressional hearings said that non-citizens might be detained or denied entry to the US if they didn’t let Homeland Security rummage through their electronic devices and maybe even make copies of them at the border. He seemed to indicate that this wasn’t […]
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