For several years the US has been trying to slow down China’s competition with us by banning the export of US technology like high end chips and chip making equipment. It actually had the exact opposite effect. Chinese companies found a gap left by the US bans and used that to develop homegrown solutions. Morgan […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You may have heard of the Chinese cyberattack on American telecommunications giants like AT&T, Verizon and Lumen (AKA Qwest or US West). Between 2019 and AT LEAST 2024, they had free reign to listen in to conversations like Trump, Kamala Harris and millions of ordinary people, but the scope is getting much bigger. While the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Qantas posted a notice on its web site in July that a cyber attack exposed data of about 6 million customers. The data included names, emails phone numbers and birth dates but no financial or passport info, so in the grand scheme of cyber attacks, there have been a lot worse. “The incident occurred when a cyber […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In testimony before Congress about Chinese cyberattacks, Rob Joyce, former cybersecurity director at the NSA, told Congress that he had “grave concerns that the aggressive threats to cut U.S. government probationary employees will have a devastating impact on cybersecurity and national security.” The government already has a LOT of trouble hiring competent cybersecurity staff because […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Candidates often say what they think will sell. In 2021 then president Trump said that bitcoin ‘just seems like a scam‘: “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam. I was surprised — you know, with us, it was at 6,000 and, much lower. I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sungard Files for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Protection – Again Sungard, the king of disaster recovery and business continuity needs to figure out a new business. They previously filed for Chapter 11 in 2019 and shed $800 million in debt, but they have a fundamental problem. As businesses move from private data centers to the cloud […]
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