Internet Rot Causes Porn on Legit Sites News sites like New York Magazine and others accidentally displayed porn because they had links to the old and now gone Vidme video sharing site. Vidme went out of business in 2017 and a porn site bought the domain. Since there is no easy way for web site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Or at least try! The NSO Group is the Israeli company that sells spyware to governments. And which evidence suggests also sells to all forms of unsavory characters, although they deny that. Evidence also says that they target journalists, activists, business executives and lawyers around the world. But they come from the Werner Von Braun […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When people talk about IoT – Internet of Things – these days, they are thinking of Amazon Alexa or Phillips Vue lightbulbs, but where IoT started was in factories and warehouses, decades ago. Industrial automation or IIoT is still where the biggest in IoT attacks lies. Today we learned about a critical remote code execution […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The short answer is we don’t know. That should scare you a bit. In fact, it is likely that I have a better handle on the cybersecurity of my drinking water than many public water systems do. Here are some stats. A MAJORITY of the 52,000 drinking water supply systems in the United States have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mobile finance apps are very popular, but are they safe? A report by security company Intertrust says that 88% of the apps tested failed at least one of the cryptographic tests, meaning that the encryption can be broken, resulting in loss of privacy and possibly loss of your money. Some of the other findings from […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]
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