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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We don’t seem to remember history very well, so, I guess, we are doomed to repeat it. A Chinese company, ADUPS, makes a technology that a number of phone manufacturers buy and use. It allows the manufacturer to update the firmware in a phone or IoT device over the air (meaning, I assume, over the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You might think this is obvious, but just in case it is not, California wants to make this clear. It used to be, in California, that if you had sensitive data encrypted and that data was stolen, you didn’t have to tell people because, after all, it was encrypted. But there is a rub with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic, announced a breach last month. Now the hackers behind the attack, the Dark Overlord, say that the clinic owner has not paid the ransom – 83 bitcoins or around $60k – and they are threatening to release more records. Last month they released names, birth dates, addresses, prescription info and socials of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]LinkedIn is becoming LinkedOut, at least in Russia. Our friend Vladimir Putin passed a law in 2014 that said that any company that operates in Russia needs to store it’s user’s data in country. Most U.S. companies protested against it, although it is believed that a few have an architecture that allows them to do […]
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