UPDATE: Brian’s web site is not back with Akamai, but rather with Google’s Project Shield. Project Shield is an effort by Google to support free speech to journalists around the world. If they accept your web site, there is no cost. And Google probably has a fair amount of both bandwidth and brainpower to stop […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last month a hacker group known as The Shadow Brokers released a series of exploits that they said belong to an NSA contractor that has been called the Equation Group. Whether the Equation Group is real and whether they are a vendor of exploits to the NSA or not is really not terribly relevant in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What if a technically sophisticated adversary, such as Russia or China wanted to create chaos in the United States – how would he or she do it? What if a technically sophisticated lone wolf hacker wanted to do it, is it possible? My answer would be: Possible – absolutely! Probable: I don’t know. Concerning: You […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is always rewarding when well respected people write published articles supporting an argument that you have been making for years. I guess I was just slightly ahead of my time. In this case, my point has been that law firms are a huge target for hackers – and not just the large law firms. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like there are a lot more breakins than there are convictions in court, but every now and then the feds catch a big one. In this case it is Roman Seleznev, the son of a Russian lawmaker. He was accused of costing banks about $170 million in losses and costs to repair the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All of the cell phone carriers such as Verizon, AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile are in the business of selling you stuff. Sometimes stuff you don’t want or need, but still stuff they would like to sell to you. As a result, when decent security gets in the way of them being able to separate you […]
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