Ransomware as a Chaos Mechanism This version of ransomware doesn’t require much skill. Rather than encrypting files and demanding a ransom, they are just deleting as many files as possible and watching the chaos with some popcorn and beer. Even if the company has good backups, and many don’t, it can still cause downtime, supply […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]North Koreans Attacking Crypto With Social Engineering Because … that is where the money is. The FBI says they are using highly tailored, difficult to detect social engineering campaigns. In spite of the so-called technical expertise of these targeted companies these attacks are effective. Credit: The Record August Ransomware Attack Causes Stoli Vodka to File […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Musk Admits to Making It Harder to Read News on X We only post blogs to Twitter anymore to support our current followers. Musk wants you to upload your content to Twitter so that he controls it and you never leave the platform. If you include a link in a post, it will be deprioritized. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Texas AG Sue TikTok Under SCOPE Act The Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act is designed to protect kids online. The Texas AG claims that TikTok failed to comply with the parental verification requirement, unlawful sharing, disclosing or selling of a minor’s PII and failure to create and provide parental tools. While this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Can Vendors Enforce License Agreements for Kids on Parents? Ed Tech vendors (those companies that sell tech to schools for use by their students) apparently sell your kid’s data and think that because the school agreed to some terms that implicitly binds the parents. In one case, the court said no. I didn’t know that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Housing Market Bracing For Interest Hike Since Trump Won Now that Donald Trump was elected this week, economists are betting that inflation will go up. Research firm Capital Economics plans to actually raise its interest-rate forecast because its economist Thomas Ryan suspects the Federal Reserve’s reaction will be to pull back on slashing rates. The […]
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