The heads of the intelligence community – NSA, CIA, FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency, appearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Chinese smartphones posed a threat to national security. Exactly why they singled out those two Chinese phones, compared to the iPhone, which is likely made in the same factory, is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cryptocurrency is an interesting beast. Unregulated by governments. Not backed by reserves or governments. Difficult to track IF DONE RIGHT. Completely transparent if not done right. For all of these reasons, it is the target of attackers of all stripes. The first attack this week was in England. Armed robbers broke into the home of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NOTE: THE CONTENTS OF THIS POST MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS. A 28 year old Ohio man has been indicted for creating and installing malware on hundreds of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows computers. The man, Phillip Durachinsky, used the software to spy on people. This includes recording what the camera and microphone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that the tech industry follow the model of the financial services industry. Some of the big banks have created a messaging app with delete capability so to keep the regulators happy, they agreed to save a copy of each message for 7 years. Lets apply that to the tech industry […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers tried to do this the right way with no luck so now they are seeing if bad publicity will get the job done. AT&T Directv creates a private wireless network to transfer video, audio and the user interface between it’s wireless slave boxes hanging off the back of your TVs and the DVR that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you thought you were being paranoid, you were not. Have you ever gone to a web site, wandered around but never clicked on anything and then closed the browser only to see an ad for whatever you were looking at show up on some other web site? There is a reason for that […]
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