Oracle POS Back Door Discovered Oracle bought the Micros Point of Sale System a few years ago and now needs to deal with the challenges from that. The newest challenge is a modular back door that affects the 3700 POS series. It is used by hundreds of thousands of hotels, restaurants, bars and other hospitality […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The “S” in Coworking Stands for Security While the WSJ says that coworking companies are closing money losing spaces as a result of Covid, don’t forget that coworking spaces are about as secure as airport WiFi, meaning not at all. The local news just said that some coworking companies are actually expanding as people want […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This seems to keep coming up, so maybe spending a little time on the subject might be helpful. The security or privacy team creates this form for users to acknowledge something or approve something and then hand it off. Marketing gets in the middle of it to make it look pretty. Developers then take a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, gonna do some local humor. What bridges are these? The first one is the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island. The second one is the Tappan Zee Bridge between Tarrytown (NY) and Nyack. Neither of these are a bridge too far and both of which I have traveled over many times. But New […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2003 California passed Senate Bill 1386 (SB-1386). It was the first online privacy law in the U.S. What followed, over the next 17 years, was that every state in the nation implemented a law, generally modeled after SB-1386. In 2018 California, sort of with a gun to its head, passed CCPA. Again a first […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]TikTok Ban – Remember That? Well now that the election is over – at least the voting part – we can get back to the important stuff like whether our kids can create 30 second dance videos on TikTok. The President signed a memo a couple of months ago to add trade pressure on China […]
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