If You Think the Chinese Balloon Incident is a Major Wake-up call … China has been spying on the US for decades. And we have been spying on them. Kind of like Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine when we were kids. If you think that the balloon gave China important information – above the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Biden Admin Moves to Halt All Exports to Huawei The Biden administration is continuing to tighten the grip on China. The feds have stopped approving licenses for the export of most items to Huawei, according to the Financial Times. The end game is for a total ban on sales to Huawei. Credit: BBC Popular Derivatives […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oh, Boy, Bad Day at Work – FAA NOTAM Failure Caused by Contractor Deleting Wrong Files The FAA is now saying that the NOTAM failure earlier this month that shut down air traffic for around 90 minutes was caused by human error. A contractor was trying to fix a synchronization problem between the primary and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What Could Possibly Go Wrong – Cali’s Digital License Plates Hacked A team of security researchers managed to gain “super administrative access” into Reviver, the company behind California’s new digital license plates which launched last year. That access allowed them to track the physical GPS location of all Reviver customers and change a section of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Comcast Xfinity Accounts Hacked in Widespread 2FA Bypass While Comcast is not saying much, a number of users who use Comcast email WITH 2FA are reporting their accounts being hacked. It appears this is due, possibly, to password reuse combined with a bug in Comcast’s system which allows the hackers to bypass 2FA. Once the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chris Inglis Leaving White House Cyber Director White House jobs are hard. Even for a Brigadier General. News outlets are reporting that he will leave that post in early 2023. Before coming to the White House, he was the deputy director of the NSA. His experience will be missed. He did say early on that […]
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