Why Are the Solar Panels on Your Roof a National Security Problem? It would take some work, but if a hacker got access to the same network as your solar panels (like as a result of, say, an unchanged default WiFi password), then due to vulnerabilities in EG4’s solar inverters, a hacker could intercept data, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI has entered the boardroom, front and center. For directors, it is not an IT issue. It is a governance, ethics and judgement issue. Board members can ignore it for a little while, but they do so at their own risk. And the whole issue around AI is about managing risk. Managing risk in an environment […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AI Vendor Perplexity Accused of Scraping Websites That Explicitly Blocked AI Scraping Oops. Did they do that? They wouldn’t do that, would they? Cloudflare published research that says it actually saw Perplexity scraping sites while explicitly obscuring its identity in an attempt to circumvent the website’s preferences. To the tune of tens of thousands of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yes, you heard me right. No, not party balloons, spy balloons. As countries want ever more spy data but don’t have ever more budget, this is an option they are testing. Just last week the UK said it had completed trials of an UNCREWED, high altitude set of balloons. The MoD said they were a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Drug Cartels Use IT to Kill FBI Informants According to a newly published report, a Sinaloa cartel/El Chapo insider contacted the FBI in 2018 and told it of all the ways in which the cybercrook hired by the cartel helped it track down those who could give up key details about its operation and eliminate […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In light of the Supreme Court saying that it it not invasive for web sites to collect your government ID to verify your age before letting you see their site, Google is trying a different, very interesting, tactic instead of requiring you to upload your government ID. The problems with web sites collecting your ID […]
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