I came across an item today that stunned me. The Wall Street Journal and Findlaw reported on a case from late last year where a Virginia State judge ruled that an arrestee may have to offer up his fingerprint to unlock his phone – the Fifth Amendment does not apply. Now before everyone goes crazy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ars technica is reporting that Uber is scrambling to try to recover from an itty bitty problem. Apparently, someone posted Uber source code (probably an Uber employee) to the public source code repository GitHub. GitHub is a wonderful tool for storing open source software code in a way that is easy for developers to share. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While everyone is off beating up Lenovo and Lenovo, in turn, is beating up Komodia, I suggest everyone is missing the real problem. First of all, to make sure that no one is confused, this problem is not limited to Lenovo consumer laptops. Komodia has over a hundred customers developing software, all of which put […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DentistryIQ, a web site for dental professionals ran a piece last week talking about dentists (and while the article didn’t talk about it, doctors as well) being a target for cyber criminals (see article). If you think about it, it makes a lot of sense. Think about all the non public personal information that a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Network World wrote about an interesting attack that is – at least in this case – very simple to fix. First, what is Pharming. When you go to your browser and type in www. foo.com, you are trusting the browser to actually send you to foo.com. What if it really sent you to badfoo.com? Badfoo.com […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reuters is reporting that the Chinese government has removed a number of Western technology vendors products from the approved list. Whether this is due to Western surveillance or just due to their desire to support local companies is not clear – they are not saying. What they are saying is that Chinese companies “offer more […]
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