Law enforcement has been trying since at least the 1990’s when they jailed and tried to convict Phil Zimmerman for creating an open source encryption program called PGP, to put the encryption genie back in the bottle. The problem is that encryption is math and math doesn’t care about politics. If some governments were to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Actually, they just used New York as an example, but the researchers literally melted the copper power lines. Once the power lines were vaporized, well, there was no more power. The good news is that this was just a demonstration, but definitely a scary one. Worse yet. The device the team hacked – it was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senator Chris Van Hollen (Maryland) wrote a letter to Commerce Secretary Raimondo asking what she planned to do about this security vulnerability – the first we are hearing about it. Raimondo could ban the equipment, just like equipment made by Huawai and others. Chinese electronics maker Yealink is not a household word like Huawei, but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Software released by Microsoft and other vendors is digitally signed so that users can validate that it really came from the vendor in question and that it has not been modified since the vendor created it. However, hackers have figured out how to bypass the security provided by Microsoft’s digital signature verification process, allowing them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some people say that common sense isn’t so common anymore. Sometimes the Internet doesn’t seem to have much common sense, so those people might be right. Hopefully most adults can distinguish between smart things to do and not so smart things to do, but not always. Right after Apple and Google split over Google maps […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Romance scams have been around since, well, there has been romance. But there is a new version of the scam traced to the Chinese mafia. Start with the traditional online dating site romance scam. Chat with your mark, flirt, but don’t actually meet in person. They typically target shy, lonely people – preferably with money […]
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