Over the last few years the police have been using the large commercial DNA databases to help them find criminals. The highest profile case was their use of DNA to find the Golden State Killer (1970’s and 1980’s murders; captured in 2018). They did that by running a DNA sample against GEDMatch, one of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Following in the footsteps of the cybersecurity Executive Order, President Biden issued a National Security Memorandum last week on improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure control systems – that is the computers that control our critical infrastructure. Like the EO, this NSM has specific details. The government has created a Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Internet Rot Causes Porn on Legit Sites News sites like New York Magazine and others accidentally displayed porn because they had links to the old and now gone Vidme video sharing site. Vidme went out of business in 2017 and a porn site bought the domain. Since there is no easy way for web site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law firms are a target for hackers. After all, what does a law firm do? They know where the proverbial bodies are buried. Case in point. Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, law firm to companies like Apple, Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Ford, Honda, IBM, Toyota and many others, suffered a breach. They discovered the breach in February. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FTC Votes UNANIMOUSLY to Enforce Right to Repair As companies like John Deere and Apple fight to keep their exceptionally lucrative repair business to themselves, the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously this week to enforce laws around right to repair. While this won’t eliminate all the barriers to users fixing stuff that they paid thousands […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is being sued. Again. This is not news. What is news is why they are being sued. Google says that they don’t sell your data. While that may be accurate, they do, according to a new lawsuit, give it away to anyone who wants it. How does that work? Google sells ads. While some […]
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