Former NY mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been in the security business since leaving the mayor’s job in 2001 and is now the cybersecurity czar for President Trump. After he was nominated, security experts checked out his website. The web site, GiulianiSecurity.com is a tad bit unsecure. The site is built using Joomla, a low end content […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Every year at this time there are new laws and this year is no exception. Illinois, Nebraska and Nevada have added usernames or email to data elements that are considered personal information if that information is combined with other information that would let a hacker access your online account. In other words, a username with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. All that is about to change and I don’t mean that the Constitution is going to change. Like the Apple-FBI fight earlier this year, Amazon is in a fight with the law and I don’t think it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you may be aware that earlier this year the FBI outed two major New York based law firms – Cravath, Swaine & Moore (500 attorneys) and Weil, Gotshal & Manges (1,000 attorneys) – as being hacked. But they did not give a lot of details. Now some of the details are coming out, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The cell site simulator device known as a Stingray was originally designed for use by the military in order to create a small, local cell site bubble around our troops, but has been modified by its creator to be able to intercept cell communications in the United States. While law enforcement – and Harris Corporation […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In April the Supreme Court approved the FBI’s request for expanded powers under Rule 41. This rule change could have been rolled back if Congress decided to do that, but they did not and the changes to the rule went into effect on December 1. So what do the changes to Rule 41 of the […]
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