CrowdStrike is a major vendor of user workstation security software used by many Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. On Friday, they caused a major meltdown of Windows workstations across the globe. CrowdStrike insists that this was simply a software update gone wrong and maybe that is true. But there are plenty of conspiracy theorists […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T is First Company To Evade SEC’s 4 Day Breach Disclosure No, they are not badasses, they asked for permission. The SEC rules that went into effect last year have a carve out from the disclosure rule – actually it is not an exception, just a delay. It is not clear who asked whom, but […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been tempted, from time to time, to use cloud apps to do things like convert PDFs to Word documents or reformat videos and the like. To date, I have successfully resisted that urge. Apparently, there is some merit to that restraint. That does not mean that the cloud is evil. What it does […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CNN published an explosive expose on how Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras. In a lawsuit brought by a victim whose vacation turned into a nightmare, a women was secretly recorded undressing at an Airbnb property, her images were stored on a computer belonging to an (alleged) sexual predator. The predator is accused […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Speculative Execution Raises its Ugly Head Again Speculative execution is a type of attack that exploits bugs or features in Intel, AMD and Arm processors that try to squeeze that last ounce of juice out of that processor in your computer or phone. This family of attacks has been around for years. A famous one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NYC’s Gotham Restaurant Forced to Close After Cyber Scam Hopefully they will be able to re-open, but for businesses, the law is much less forgiving. The ritzy Greenwich Village restaurant fell for a business email compromise attack that had it send its payroll money to what they thought was their payroll service’s “new” bank account. […]
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