I can’t really blame Apple for this. Their heart was in the right place. Helping people find their lost stuff sounds like a reasonable goal. The problem is that no good deed ever goes unpunished. Initially, people bought an AirTag and then either slipped it into someone’s coat pocket or attach it to the back […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Quietly, the IRS was trying to reduce the billions of dollars a year in fraud from people who pretend to be you and me and do things like steal tax refunds. They did this by making it harder to pretend to be someone you are not, including using biometrics. Some people complained that people who […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swiss banking world has always been secret. Very secret. Even after the U.S. worked out a deal to try and get information from the Swiss for tax evasion reasons, there is still not much transparency. Credit Suisse has had its share of troubles recently including helping wealthy customers evade taxes, engaging in illegal business […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Missouri Prosecutor Wisely Decides Governor is not Tech Smart Remember when the governor got his feeling hurt after a St. Louis newspaper revealed that the education department’s website was publishing the PII of tens of thousands of teachers and asked the Highway Patrol to prosecute the reporter who embarrassed him? The PII was, as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When hackers are faced with multi-factor authentication, they look for another weak spot – often it is the human being. For example, Office 365 users are being bombarded with push notifications requesting access. After a while they just say yes to make it stop. Now the researchers have given it a name – Multi-factor authentication […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just watched a DoD town hall on their current thoughts on CMMC 2.0. Here are some of the highlights: CMMC 2.0 has been stripped down to NIST SP 800-171 (we already knew that) DoD has already had several meetings with NIST about adding (at least some of) the things that were in CMMC 1.0 […]
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