Data broker Gravy Analytics lost control of their location data database, affecting the privacy of millions. The hacker has published a “sample” of 30 million location records. Remember, 30 million represents just a sample; we don’t know who much data was stolen in total. The data released includes location data from fitness, health, dating, transit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Soon you will start seeing this VOLUNTARY cyber trust on connected IoT devices from baby monitors, smart appliances to cameras to all sorts of things. The FCC created this program and it is likely that responsible manufacturers will sign up for it. The FCC is outsourcing the administration of this program to Underwriters Laboratory (UL), […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since we are almost at New Year’s eve, this post is a bit of a fun. AI knows all, right? 0.02 seconds, right? Well, not so fast. NFTEvening and Storible collaborated on a test to see how fast AI can figure out your seed phrase. First, what the heck is a seed phrase anyway? You […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Sue JPMorgan, Wells, BofA Over Zelle Fraud Given the administration is changing next month and the new administration is not fond of rules that negatively impact business, I don’t know if this lawsuit will go anywhere, but the complaint said it took Zelle years to respond at all to Zelle fraud and in most […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ransomware as a Chaos Mechanism This version of ransomware doesn’t require much skill. Rather than encrypting files and demanding a ransom, they are just deleting as many files as possible and watching the chaos with some popcorn and beer. Even if the company has good backups, and many don’t, it can still cause downtime, supply […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the entire US Senate was briefed this week about the Chinese attack called Salt Typhoon on US and other telecom and Internet carriers, the feds are trying to figure out what to do. This is going to be the job of the next administration because I doubt Congress can create a solution in the […]
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