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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Chinese drone maker DJI controls nearly 70% of the commercial drone market (Credit: Hindustan Times). DroneXL says that the control 54% of the total drone market. DoneXL says that number is down 15% from last year (which could match the 70% number) . In any case, their next nearest competitor is Autel at 7% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Gift That Keeps on Giving – Log4j – List of Affected Vendors First, get used to hearing about this. It will be haunting us for months, at least. Jen Easterly, current head of DHS’s CISA and formerly at NSA and a professor at the US Military Academy at West Point says this may be […]
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