Actually, for the White House, half-baked is a pretty high bar. Here is what is going on and what they are doing. You may remember that a number of public water supply systems were recently hacked. Initially, it was reported that a half dozen systems in Minnesota were attacked. The president blew that off with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Secure Data Act is the next attempt at a federal privacy law that would replace 20 or more state privacy laws. The Electronic Frontier Foundation published a detailed assessment of the bill saying that it is not serious privacy legislation. They say it has too many exemptions, too little enforcement and too much … […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you have a recently purchased PC, unlike the one I am writing this on, in theory, this should be fixed automatically. There are several steps that you can take to figure out the status of things. The first question is whether secure boot is turned on. Run MSINFO32 and look for the SECURE BOOT […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is no news that CISA fired a third of its staff, hundreds more quit, even more have been forcibly moved to other agencies, the agency has not had a director in the last year and a half and morale is in the toilet. Given all that, a few large companies in private industry have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is old news (as in 3 days old) that Anthropic, maker of Claude, accidentally included hundreds of thousands of source code when they included an internal file in a public release. That file was only meant for internal use. That, by itself, is embarrassing but not catastrophic. It certainly helps hackers look for bugs, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like this is becoming too frequent. A lone hacker used Claude and ChatGPT to breach Mexico’s government. 1 person. Two AI subscriptions. Nine agencies compromised. 150 gigabytes of data stolen. The breached agencies include Mexico’s federal tax authority and the national electoral institute, also state level systems in the Mexican states of Jalisco, […]
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