Apple is preparing to add a new prompt to iOS that requires users to opt-in to tracking by app developers like Facebook. It used to be that you could opt-out — if you could find the place to do that. Facebook is going to have its own screen telling you how wonderful it is to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The cops are fighting a game of whack-a-mole with the hackers and likely always will, but this week they whacked hard and had a couple of wins. In a multi-nation effort including the US, UK, Europol and many others, the good guys (and ladies) took control of the command and control servers for the Emotet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Parler Finds A New Home With Russian Hosting Provider in Belize “Hello world, is this thing on? With that message Parler’s website is back online. Well at least a one page website is back online. The site is being hosted by Russian-owned DDoS-Guard, a company that apparently also hosts ISIS web sites. Whether the folks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law enforcement agencies around the world have been whining about the “going dark” problem at least since the early 1990s when they tried really hard to put Phil Zimmerman in jail for creating encryption that mere mortals could use. There is no question that bad folks use encryption to hide stuff, but good folks also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Bulk Energy Providers Must Report Attempted Breaches The Solar Winds attack, from what little we know about it, was bad enough, but what if it was Russia’s trial run for taking down the power grid like they did in Ukraine or taking out the water supply or gas supply? NERC, the electric utility regulator, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First Apple and Google removed the Parler app from both of their app stores. Then Amazon kicked them off Amazon’s AWS platform for violating their terms of service. That would seem like a problem for most companies, but that was the good part of their week. Yesterday a security researcher who goes by the nickname […]
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