This is actually not a unique story; it happens from time to time. Luckily, it doesn’t happen that often, but when it does, OH BOY! Casey Umetso, age 40, was a network administrator for a “prominent Hawaii-based financial services company”, the name of which, for some reason, the DoJ is trying to shield. After being […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many small businesses and a lot of large ones use third party IT service providers called MSPs or Managed Service Providers. In almost all cases, these MSPs have the keys to your IT universe. They have access to your data. They also have access to all of your access rules. If they also help you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Optus, the second largest telecom vendor in Australia was hacked and the hackers want a million dollars in exchange for not selling the data on ten plus million people that they stole. Optus is being investigated over the breach by the Australian Federal Police. The hacker leaked sample data that appears to validate that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Twitter Whistleblower Says There Was at Least One Chinese Spy Working at Twitter Mudge says that there were spies working for China and India working at the company. Twitter says of course. Probably because that was part of a deal-with-the-devil that Twitter made to be able to stay in the country. What Mudge says was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It used to be that you stuck a key in a hole in your dashboard (and later in your steering column) and that was the end of the electronics. There were a few circuit boards, but mostly there were a lot of electro-mechanical linkages. Electronics sourcing says there are a thousand chips in a car […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One More Time-Vendor Says Their HW is Buggy and They Are Not Going to Patch Them This is not new news. Vendors only patch hardware and software for so long and then, YOU NEED TO REPLACE IT. Even if it is still “working” -because the hackers still find bugs. But now, you have no protection. […]
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