Today the Department of Justice announced the indictment of 4 in the 2013 Yahoo breach – three years after it happened. Two of the people indicted are members of the Russian FSB. Under Russian law, the FSB is part of the Russian military and responsible for, among other things, counterespionage. The other two indicted are Russian […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has been ordered by a magistrate judge in Philadelphia to turn over emails stored abroad. While we don’t have all the details of the case, it appears to be related to a domestic fraud case. The emails in question are stored in a foreign country. The case is a domestic case. Last summer, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like the spy-guys (or is it spy-people) can’t seem to catch a break. First it was Snowden; more recently it was Martin – both Booz Allen contractors at the NSA. Now it is the CIA. Wikileaks published thousands of documents, which appear to be real, describing CIA hacking tools. This includes, supposedly, at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stewart International Airport has a long history. In 1930 Thomas Stewart convinced his Uncle to donate land for an airport to the city. In 1939 the U.S. Military Academy at West Point built the first airfield at Stewart and in 1948 it became Stewart Air Force Base. In 1970 the State of New York bought […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you were of those who thought that there was no real cost to cyber breaches, you might want to ask Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer and GC Ron Bell about that. The Yahoo Board has decided not to award Mayer, CEO of Yahoo during all of the recent breaches and renegotiated Verizon deal, any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google and Uber are both working on self driving cars, for different reasons. Google has had a strong lead in the game – until. Google’s self driving car subsidiary called Waymo says it has spent millions of dollars perfecting the technology for self driving cars. A former Google employee, Anthony Levandowski, started the self driving […]
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