Akamai Sees Largest DDoS Attack Ever Cloudflare says that one of its customers was hit with a 1.44 terabit per second denial of service attack. A second attack topped 500 megabits per second. The used a variety of amplification techniques that required some custom coding on Akamai’s part to control, but the client was able […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Singapore Updates Contact Tracing App Singapore is not exactly a democracy, so this isn’t a complete surprise. They are updating their contact tracing app to include foreigner’s passport number and scanning of barcodes to facilitate tracking when someone enters a store or mall or restaurant. They would like the program to run in the background, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers Have Access to iOS 14 Months Before You Will Apple gives developers early prototypes of their new software so that Apple doesn’t have a disaster on its hands when the new software is released and user’s applications no longer work. Unfortunately, some developers sell those phones – or at least access to them – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Californians for Consumer Privacy, an advocacy group that started the push for CCPA is back again, pushing for a ballot initiative this time. You may remember that they got enough signatures two years ago and only by some amazing gymnastics did the legislature pass CCPA. The group says that they have enough signatures to get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]About a year ago the Governor of New York signed the SHIELD act into law. Among other things, the law broadened the definition of a breach to include ACCESS to the data, not just stealing it. It also broadened the definition of personally identifiable information. Notice that no one talks about non-public personal information any […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Pitney Bowes Hit By Ransomware for 2nd Time in 7 Months Pitney Bowes has verified that it has been hit by a ransomware attack for the second time in 7 months. This time it is the maze ransomware, which steals data before encrypting your systems. Sometimes ransomware hackers leave their hooks in a victim’s system […]
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