Representative Will Hurd (R-TX), is the head of the House Information Technology Subcommittee and a former CIA Agent who spent 9 years in Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, working on counter terrorism and cyber security before working for the cyber security firm FusionX. He has a somewhat depressing but very accurate view of cyber security. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, maybe not a friend that you want to have, but they will likely get to visit the nation’s Capitol. Verizon has gotten way more press than it would like by inserting super-cookies into it’s customers web traffic to allow folks like the marketing giant Turn to build dossiers on Verizon customers and then sell […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]IT World wrote a piece on how the cops caught up with the now convicted founder of Silk Road, Ross Ulbricht, AKA The Dread Pirate Roberts, the man who ran the dark web marketplace for everything from drugs to murder. The author goes into a lot more detail for those geeks who are interested. Curious […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Samsung’s Smart TV voice recognition works just like the voice recognition on your Android or iPhone – with one big difference and CNN is reporting on this today. On all of these devices, the device captures your voice, sends it over the internet and gets the text back the same way. It is not clear […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to USA Today and the NY Times, Verizon has announced that it will allow users to opt out of their super-cookie program “soon”. You may remember that both Verizon and AT&T were caught adding a unique tracking identifier into all web page requests last year as customers were using programs such as ad blocker […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Justice Department continues to push for the ability to bypass encryption (see here). Leslie Caldwell, one of the assistant AGs said that the DoJ is very concerned that Apple and Google have turned on encryption by default. I guess that must point to the fact that if people have to do something to turn […]
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