Feds Remind Folks that Money Stored in Fintech Platforms Like eBay are at Risk US consumers have billions of dollars stored on platforms like eBay, Venmo and a number of others. The feds want to remind you that if you do that, you are “self insuring”, meaning that maybe the platform will return your money […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dutch Data Protection Authorities Looking Into Alleged Tesla Data Breach Germany’s Handelsblatt reported on Thursday that Tesla (TSLA.O) had allegedly failed to adequately protect data belonging to customers, employees and business partners, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower. The Dutch DPA is looking into the situation. Among the data is Elon’s Social plus […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Part Time Hackers Get Rich A business email compromise hacking group, based in Israel, is so good that it only needs to work part time. Only targeting large companies and their executives, the average haul for this team is $712,000. The overall average from BEC attacks is only $65,000. Learn their success strategy and avoid […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Couple of Annoyed Redditors Launched Website to Anonymously Rate Your Landlord – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? While I understand why some folks might be annoyed at their landlord, how do you verify anything that is on the site? Until now there really hasn’t been a way to figure out whether a landlord treats […]
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