IoT – Internet of Things – devices are great. Whether it is Siri telling you the score of a sporting event or your refrigerator telling you to buy more milk, it makes life easier. But there is a problem with them. Many of you know that I am not a real advocate of smart whatevers, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is probably not news to most people. What is probably news – maybe – is that even when you think you tell Google not to collect and store your location data – it does so anyway. Or, at least, that is the several lawsuits claim. In the lawsuit filed Monday in a District of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Bootkits are designed to be undetectable but typically you can reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system or, worst case, you can replace the hard drive to disinfect the computer. But wait, there is more. Security researchers from Kaspersky. the Russian cybersecurity company that we can never figure out who’s side they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Arrests Some REvil Gang Members At this point we don’t know who they ticked off, but Putin’s goons arrested 14 people and seized 426 million Roubles (about $5.5 million), $600,000 USD, 500,000 euros, computers and 20 cars. These guys definitely will not be getting a Christmas card from Vlad next year. Credit: Yahoo News […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The IRS is changing from using a homegrown userid and password based authentication system to a third party single signon type of system run by ID.ME. Given that the IRS doesn’t have a great track record for security, your first inclination might be “can’t be any worse than what they had before”. The short version […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As times change and as a function of the pandemic response, governments are trying to deliver more services online. Unfortunately, governments rarely get to hire the best or the brightest software developers or security architects because they cannot match what the private sector can offer. Auth0 recently released the findings of its Public Sector Identity […]
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