Using a badge to get you in the office (and for some companies out of the office as well) may not be as secure as you thought it was. French security services firm Quarkslab has made an eye-popping discovery: a significant backdoor in millions of contactless cards made by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics Group, a leading […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unfortunately, data breaches are with us to stay, at least for the near term. I’d like to think that they will end soon, but I don’t think that is going to happen. Today web site FlightAware warned that some customers’ information has been ‘exposed’, including social security numbers. FlightAware claims to be one of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Interpol Recovers Over $40 Mill from Biz Email Compromise Attack INTERPOL has created a global stop-payment mechanism that it can use to recover funds. A company in Singapore thought they were paying a vendor. Instead they paid a hacker. INTERPOL’s Global Rapid Intervention of Payments or I-GRIP was able to recover $39 million out of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The EU has designated TikTok as a major player (what the EU calls a VERY LARGE ONLINE PLATFORM) like Facebook and Twitter and as a result, they are regulating it under the Digital Services Act, one of the EU’s new laws to fight the mega (US) tech companies. TikTok did have a rewards program which […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]State Dept. Says UN Cybercrime Treaty Must protect Human Rights On the eve of final negotiations at the UN for a long awaited cybercrime treaty, the US says they are focused on ensuring the treaty protects human rights. The US, along with 40 other countries — not including, Surprise, Russia or China — signed off […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Candidates often say what they think will sell. In 2021 then president Trump said that bitcoin ‘just seems like a scam‘: “Bitcoin, it just seems like a scam. I was surprised — you know, with us, it was at 6,000 and, much lower. I don’t like it because it’s another currency competing against the dollar, […]
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