In some sense this is not news. Given the West’s pressure on Russia since Ukraine, Russia would love to stick it to us. They tried hacking election systems in 2016 and a little bit in 2020, but even if they were successful, the impact was too isolated to make a difference. So a new strategy. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NOTE: I generally try to steer away from politics in this blog but this year that is going to be hard to do. There is no way that either social media or the legal process is going to be able to curb the disinformation coming from all sides. I have another post that I am […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It appears, at least for now, the the breaches at the hosting provider Snowflake of 560 million users at Ticketmaster and 30 million accounts at Santander Bank among 163 or so other companies was not caused by an underlying weakness and resultant compromise of Snowflake’s systems. This is not Snowflake saying this, it is Google […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Reddit just sold your data to an AI model. But that is kind of small news. Companies are quietly change their terms of service to allow them to do that. Your only alternative could be: Max Schrems, the Austrian attorney and privacy activist who is the bane of the existence of every tech company operating […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As ransomware attacks go, Black Basta has been around for a long time – since 2022. According to CISA, it has targeted 500 organizations and is believed to be an offshoot of the Conti Gang. CISA also says that Black Basta typically allows 10-12 days for negotiation before they post the victim’s data. We are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Change Health / UnitedHealth Group breach continues to evolve and get worse. UnitedHealth is suggesting that the hackers may have accessed health data for “a very large number of people in the United States. Fundamentally, this is a worst case scenario for what happens when data moves from paper to bits and when those […]
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