As more and more communities mandate recycling, there is an ever increasing number of devices being thrown into recycling bins that contain lithium batteries. In September 2016 a four alarm fire broke out at the Shoreway Environmental Center outside of San Francisco. The fire caused $6+ million in damage and caused the plant to shut […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Arrests Some REvil Gang Members At this point we don’t know who they ticked off, but Putin’s goons arrested 14 people and seized 426 million Roubles (about $5.5 million), $600,000 USD, 500,000 euros, computers and 20 cars. These guys definitely will not be getting a Christmas card from Vlad next year. Credit: Yahoo News […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The IRS is changing from using a homegrown userid and password based authentication system to a third party single signon type of system run by ID.ME. Given that the IRS doesn’t have a great track record for security, your first inclination might be “can’t be any worse than what they had before”. The short version […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As times change and as a function of the pandemic response, governments are trying to deliver more services online. Unfortunately, governments rarely get to hire the best or the brightest software developers or security architects because they cannot match what the private sector can offer. Auth0 recently released the findings of its Public Sector Identity […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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