While some folks say that traditional social media like Twitter and Facebook are being manipulated by foreign adversaries, they may have company in the far right social media space. Stanford University’s Internet Observatory and Internet traffic mapper Graphika say the Ruskies have invaded the alt-right social media space also. This is not a big surprise. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It was probably only a matter of time, but former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and former billionaire (now hundred-aire) Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government. For those of you not watching this dumpster fire, crypto exchange FTX and its related companies leveraged the hell out […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rackspace Admits Outage Related to Ransomware On Tuesday, five days into an outage of Rackspace’s hosted Exchange service, they admitted it was due to ransomware. They say it is going to impact revenue as they work to mitigate the problem. It is still a dumpster fire, but they are dribbling out information at last. I […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sequoia One is an outsourced HR vendor based in San Francisco that serves more than 500 venture-capital backed firms. According to a letter they sent to clients, an unauthorized party (like, say, perhaps, the Chinese government) accessed its cloud storage account. Data that the unauthorized party (AKA the hacker) accessed includes “name, addresses, dates of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As tens of thousands of people in Moore County North Carolina are in the dark and cold as a result of attacks on two power stations in the county. The power stations were intentionally targeted by domestic terrorists who targeted gunfire on the substations’ transformers. While the county is not releasing many details and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the face of a security incident that Rackspace is being very opaque about, Rackspace’s stock is down 15% today. Rackspace is still not providing much information about what the hell is going on. Thousands of Rackspace customers globally continue to deal with the outage, which Rackspace says is related to a security incident (whatever […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]