CNN is reporting a tax scam which, while quite old, is apparently still way too effective. The IRS is reporting that they are getting complaints at the rate of 10,000 to 12,000 new complaints a week. The scam goes like this. Someone calls you with a Washington, DC phone number and says you are under […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I came across an item today that stunned me. The Wall Street Journal and Findlaw reported on a case from late last year where a Virginia State judge ruled that an arrestee may have to offer up his fingerprint to unlock his phone – the Fifth Amendment does not apply. Now before everyone goes crazy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Register is reporting that Anthem refused to allow U.S. government auditors to audit their systems as required as part of a contract that Anthem has with the U.S. government. This news is coming out after Anthem was hacked of some 88 million customer records. The Office Of Personnel Management Inspector General audits insurers who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ars technica is reporting that Uber is scrambling to try to recover from an itty bitty problem. Apparently, someone posted Uber source code (probably an Uber employee) to the public source code repository GitHub. GitHub is a wonderful tool for storing open source software code in a way that is easy for developers to share. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Think about all the non public personal information that a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry this post is so long, but we are beginning to see more information on how Stingrays work and are used. As I said the other day in my last Stingray post, the cat is kind of out of the bag (see post) and only going to be more so. Well, along those lines, Wired […]
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