LA Police Collected Social Media Account Info From People They Talked To I’m sure they were just curious. The LA police watchdog says that officers were instructed to collect civilians’ social media details when they interviewed them. An Email from the Chief dating back to 2015. He said it could be beneficial to investigations and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design have published details about BrakTooth, a new family of security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth software implementations. They assessed 13 Bluetooth devices from about a dozen vendors including Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Cypress and found 16 vulnerabilities. On the good side, they can cause a denial of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe I should title this “what could possibly go wrong”. This is not specifically a security issue, but it could be. Mostly it is a safety issue. In new cars, you have a big ole screen in the front. It is designed to replace the dash controls and instruments. If you are Ford and you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well That Seems Like a Bit Over the Top A pharmacist in Illinois faces up to 120 years in prison for selling dozens of (I assume blank) Covid vaccine cards. The pharmacist sold 134 cards to 11 buyers for roughly $1276. He is being charged with theft of government property. That seems like a stretch, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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