Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is always a dark side to any piece of tech. AI is no exception. Dozens of verified Twitter accounts with large numbers of followers showed this picture today. Only the photo posted on Twitter did not have a big red FAKE on it. Accounts such as @WarMonitors, @BloombergFeed, and RT posted an image of a large, gray smoke […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Part Time Hackers Get Rich A business email compromise hacking group, based in Israel, is so good that it only needs to work part time. Only targeting large companies and their executives, the average haul for this team is $712,000. The overall average from BEC attacks is only $65,000. Learn their success strategy and avoid […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]RICO is a dragnet law which can subject people and companies to very serious penalties and jail time. This is an extension of the negligence class-actions that use the principles of the Caremark Standard to go after companies with inadequate cybersecurity programs. This is a shift away from the lawsuits the claim that “my social […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Adds Dark Web Monitoring to GMail Users A feature that used to be available to paid Google One subscribers will soon be available to all GMail users. Dark web monitoring tells you if your GMail email address is found on the dark web (hint: almost all of them are due to thousands of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter wants to offer a whole bunch of services under one roof, so expect more of these. But, there are two strategies – best of breed and one throat to choke. Twitter is, apparently, going after the one throat to choke model. In the best of breed model, you pick the best tools you can […]
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