Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) allows the feds to spy on Americans – more on that in a later post – but there are rules regarding the spying on Americans. Most of the time the FBI and others follow these rules, but not always. The Act was passed after 9/11 but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware Morphs Again We know that ransomware has gone through a lot of iterations over the last couple of years as hackers try to maximize their revenue. The BlackCat group is now creating public websites for each victim company and has indexed the data to make it easy to search. I guess this means that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Scrambles to Try and Figure Out How to Stop Stalkers From Using AirTags Their newest idea is, when you initialize a new AirTag, it will tell you that Stalking may be illegal in your country. I really, really, doubt that will have any effect. They are also shortening the time window for notifying you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]WD NAS Devices Are Being Wiped Worldwide The downside of using computers beyond their end of support is that you can get hacked and all of your data can get wiped. This is what has happened to many WD My Book owners. Western Digital stopped patching them in 2015 and hackers have figured out how […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am sure that most of you reading this have not been on a conference call or video call in the last year, so this advice is not relevant to you, but for the rest of us, the NSA has a few tips on how to better protect yourself when you are collaborating online. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The UK Might Beat Us to Regulating MSPs In the US, anyone can become a managed service provider. Unfortunately, customers may think that comes with security, but usually it does not. The UK is about to create a legally binding cybersecurity framework for managed service providers. This may be the first step at forcing businesses […]
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