Not a Good Week for Social Media Privacy After the January 6th attack on the US Capitol, we saw terabytes of conversations and videos and profiles from the alt-right Twitter clone Parler posted online. Last week we saw 500+ million Facebook profiles for sale on the dark web (Facebook says this isn’t a breach) and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Director General Paul Nakasone testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee about the recent SolarWinds and Microsoft Exchange hacks. He said that foreign hackers are taking advantage of the Intelligence community’s blind spot – adversaries working INSIDE the United States. Our adversaries can come into the United States, set up shop on the web, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CCPA went into effect just over a year ago. Now we have some history on it. DataGrail is a vendor that helps companies like OVERSTOCK and OKTA respond to those CCPA requests. They have fulfilled millions of “data subject requests” for their clients. Here is what they found. 46% of the requests were to tell […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China Bans Military and Government from using Teslas – Due to ‘Spying’ The WSJ is reporting that the Chinese government has restricted the use of Tesla vehicles near or in sensitive installations like military and government facilities. The theory is that the cameras on Teslas could be used for spying. Tesla, of course, denies that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Posts Exploit to Use Spectre to Leak Data The Spectre family of side channel attacks against Intel based CPUs has been downplayed over the last year by some experts because they said there is no practical attack to steal data. Now Google has posted a proof of concept attack that could steal data at […]
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