We tend to think of 911 as ubiquitous across the United States. In reality, the thousands of PSAPs, as 911 contact centers are formally known, are a patchwork of aged technology that makes many of us cringe. A Public Safety Answering Point is run locally by a city or county and dispatches fire, police, ambulance […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Smart cars are very in these days. You can start it remotely, lock or unlock the doors, even find out where the car is. We also saw a smart car get taken over – turning the steering wheel 90 degrees while the car was going 60 MPH and controlling the gas and brakes. But what […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote the other day about hackers stealing your phone number to be able to capture the text messages for password resets. Here is another reason to be concerned about the security of your phone and phone number. The banks are walking a tightrope. Millennials just don’t relate to banks the way their parents do, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One thing about data rich environments – you have to trust that the data keepers do what they say they are going to do. As we all know, Uber collects a lot of data – even data that they don’t know what they will use it for – but surely they will need it in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Apparently Paypal was one of the companies affected by some of these OAuth security holes and they just released a fix (Dec 1,2016) for a bug that would allow hackers to steal OAuth tokens from payment apps of third party developers. Many web sites encourage you to sign on with your social media userid […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The most recent distributed denial of service attack (DDoS) meant that most people could not get to Twitter. While that was awful and may have forced a few people to actually work instead of tweeting, for the most part, that was not a big deal. In fairness to the DYN attack, there were actually hundreds […]
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