It used to be that when the phone rang, it was someone with an African accent telling you that he was from Windows technical support calling you because your computer was infected. You hung up. Scammers have gotten much smarter. Unfortunately. Here are two recent examples. This guy got taken for $10,000. Mitch (him, not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Full disclosure: it will be obvious which side of the conversation I am on pretty quickly. The FBI has been trying to ban end to end encryption – any encryption that they can’t break at will – for decades now. They charged Phil Zimmerman with crimes and almost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Your home Internet connection router or modem is the front line of defense against Internet intruders. Think of it as soldiers “manning the wall”, armed to the teeth, ready to repel intruders. At least, hopefully repelling intruders. But what if, instead of that scenario, your guards had turned into Benedict Arnold and were working for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more of our computing world lives inside a browser, the risk goes up. As we move to Work From Home, the risk goes up again because we no longer have corporate infrastructure to chop off the top few layers of attacks. Also many of us have kids that either share our computer or share […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senate Kicks the Can Down The Road Again With FISA Renewal Last week it looked like Congress was going to renew the parts of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act that DID EXPIRE last weekend. But Congress being Congress, they didn’t. On Monday the Senate agreed to kick the can down the road for 77 days. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s Encrypt Became Let’s Revoke and Then Let’s Confuse Let’s encrypt sent out an alert early this week that they were going to revoke 3 million HTTPS certificates on March 4th. That was going to happen because of a software bug on their part which meant that they possibly issued certificates when they should not […]
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