As most of you probably know, TikTok is in the fight of its life. While, if Americans stop using it, that only represents a hundred million users, they are relatively speaking very wealthy and the data they represent is very useful. While TikTok says it is not sharing your data with the Chinese government, China, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The U.S. government released its widely anticipated National Cybersecurity Strategy on Tuesday, pushing mandatory regulation on critical infrastructure vendors and green-lighting a more aggressive ‘hack-back’ approach to dealing with foreign adversaries and ransomware actors. The strategy is just that, a roadmap. While parts of it can be done without Congress’ approval, lots of it require additional authority. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]European Governments Want to be Able to Snoop on ALL of Our Communications As is usually the case, their excuse it that “it is to protect the children”. They want to break encryption while sprinkling magic fairy dust to not break encryption (an impossibility) in an effort to force kiddie porn traders (now called child […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]BlackCat Leaks Irish University’s Hacked Data I reported last week that Munster Technological University closed several of its campuses after a ransomware attack, which the university, apparently did not pay. The Irish High Court issued an injunction prohibiting the hackers from leaking the data and return any data that they had. They did “return” it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The “Chocolate Factory”, as Google is sometimes called, is facing an existential threat. Between new privacy laws in the U.S. and other countries and the restrictions on cookies, especially third party cookies, the main mechanisms that Google uses to target ads to you and me, Google’s revenue, 90 percent of which comes from ads, is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitch streamers are notorious for going after other streamers. Not sure how that started, but it is a thing. Two weeks ago, Twitch streamer Brandon Ewing (aka Atrioc) was doing a live stream for his 318,000 followers and, supposedly, inadvertently showed his open browser tabs showing that he visited a website selling deep fake porn […]
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