Hundreds of Web Sites Fall Into the Hands of Hackers Return to the list of client alerts Apparently not every company knows where every web server and subdomain is or what they are being used for. A researcher discovered more than 240 of these domains. And the domains are not owned by the corner candy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Californians for Consumer Privacy, an advocacy group that started the push for CCPA is back again, pushing for a ballot initiative this time. You may remember that they got enough signatures two years ago and only by some amazing gymnastics did the legislature pass CCPA. The group says that they have enough signatures to get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Swatting is the practice of phoning in fake 911 calls about life threatening situations and having SWAT respond to random houses, scaring the crap out of the occupants and often times doing thousands of dollars of damage, which the municipality has to pay for using tax dollars. Earlier this year a gamer swatted what he […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Australian Parliament Passes Crypto Back Door Law Overnight Politics always wins. After the Prime Minister said that the opposition party was supporting terrorism, the opposition completely folded after claiming that Parliament would implement amendments after the first of the year. Since politicians lie about 99.99% of the time, the party in power is now saying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Internet of Things (IoT) is new to consumers. We think of Nest thermostats and Internet connected baby monitors. That is true and they cause enough grief out there like last year when they took down parts of Amazon and Twitter (and hundreds of other sites) when malware attacked these poorly protected devices and used […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unless you have been totally disconnected for the last 24 hours, you are no doubt aware that Yahoo announced what may be the largest breach of accounts in history – 500 million accounts. Included in the hack were names, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, hashed passwords and security questions. They are saying, at […]
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