Remember Mastodon’s 1 Million Users Last Week – Now 6 Million Last week I reported that the open source distributed alterative to Twitter, Mastodon (sorry, mammoth, I misspelled it last week) now has 6 million. While that pales before Twitter’s 200 million, the growth curve is interesting. And because it is distributed, it will be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New White Paper on the Global Cyberwar and Societal Response We have just released a new white paper and are looking for feedback on this non-technical paper titled The Global Cyberwar and Societal Response. The target audience for this white paper is business and IT pros who want to be knowledgeable about managing company risk […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Few Election Offices Use .Gov Domain Years ago, .gov domains cost $400. In a case of penny wise, pound foolish, something like three quarters of all election officers figured that saving $400 versus a non-spoofable domain name was a smart trade off. And we wonder why the hackers are winning. Credit: The Washington Post LinkedIn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CEO of Election Software Company Arrested on Personal-Data Theft Charges Here here is one that seems to have some facts behind it. Los Angeles has charged Konnect founder Eugene Yu with theft of PII and computer hard drives. Konnect is required to keep the data on POLL WORKERS that they are storing in the United […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IRS Text Spam No, that text message that you just got did not come from the IRS. In fact, text spam, also known as smishing, leveraging the IRS’s name is exploding. I am guessing that because people are scared of the IRS and hence, they will respond to the scam spam. IRS commissioner Chuck Rettig […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why You Should Wear Contacts While on Video Conferences Researchers in Michigan and China have demonstrated their ability to read what is on your screen while you are on a video conference with 75% accuracy with text as small as 10 mm and a relatively low resolution 720 p camera. Credit: The Register Crooks are […]
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