Encrypted Phone Firm Sky ECC “Hacked” by Police Police have arrested 48 people and confiscated 14 tons of Cocaine and over a million Euros, after decrypting a half billion messages and listening in on the bad guys for several weeks. The phone company said that they don’t think the encryption was cracked, but rather, they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Starting from the beginning. DNS is the service that converts the web site address that you type in your browser like WWW.CNN.COM into the numbers, like 2a04:4e42:200::323:, that the Internet needs in order to connect you to that web site. DNS was invented because they didn’t think the web would be really popular if you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been ranting about Software Bills of Material or SBoM for a while. This week I have two examples of why this is important – even critical. The first story is about a TCP/IP network stack and the vulnerability is called Amnesia:33. It impacts four open source libraries – uIP, FNET, picoTCP and Nut/Net. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well sort of. China has joined the club of quantum computing capable countries and companies. Google and IBM were among the first members of that club and while we know that those two companies are evil (just kidding), we can assume that China has far more evil intentions in mind. Researchers from the University of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]France Says it is Going Ahead with Digital Tax France has been complaining that U.S. companies (mostly) have not been paying their fair share of French taxes since they are not selling widgets that delivered in France, so they came up with this digital tax, a 3% tax on digital services delivered in France. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Covid happened 9 months ago no one really knew what to expect. I am not sure that anyone still knows what to expect, but it looks like that Work From Home (WFH) is here to stay. Many companies have decided that it has not negatively impacted productivity and some even say that productivity is […]
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