We don’t seem to get a lot of good news when it comes to cybersecurity. Here is one good story. Katie Yates received some nude photos of a friend, Natalie Claus (normally we don’t use names, but these women are working hard to make a point that there is nothing to be ashamed of and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Small businesses especially, seem to be realizing, finally, that consumers don’t want to be the “product”. After Apple changed the rules last year to require businesses to get permission to track users’ behavior and share their information, things changed. The biggies – Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are estimating that they will lose $18 billion in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]US Emergency Alert System Has a Minor Bug Homeland Security has issued an alert that there are critical vulnerability in the Emergency Alert System encoder and decoder devices. If left unpatched, it would allow a hacker to issue fake warnings of emergencies. The EAS is the nationwide alert system that is used to warn citizens […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just call me dumb. For the last couple of years the feds have been claiming that Chinese equipment manufacturers like Huawei pose a national security risk to the United States. I really didn’t understand this since all the data transmitted over the cellular network is encrypted, so what is the problem. First, in theory, after […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]San Francisco Cops Want Real-Time Access to Private Security Cameras for Surveillance San Francisco lawmakers are considering a bill that would allow police to use private security cameras for real time surveillance. This bill expands a 2019 city ordinance that requires police to seek authorization before acquiring and deploying surveillance, hence this notice. While it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Homeland Security is doing what everyone else is doing and buying your location data from the data brokers. That practice started during the last administration and is continuing. It is important to understand that there is nothing illegal about this. If the government wants to compel a carrier to hand over data, they need a […]
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