Over the last few years the police have been using the large commercial DNA databases to help them find criminals. The highest profile case was their use of DNA to find the Golden State Killer (1970’s and 1980’s murders; captured in 2018). They did that by running a DNA sample against GEDMatch, one of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Following in the footsteps of the cybersecurity Executive Order, President Biden issued a National Security Memorandum last week on improving cybersecurity for critical infrastructure control systems – that is the computers that control our critical infrastructure. Like the EO, this NSM has specific details. The government has created a Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Internet Rot Causes Porn on Legit Sites News sites like New York Magazine and others accidentally displayed porn because they had links to the old and now gone Vidme video sharing site. Vidme went out of business in 2017 and a porn site bought the domain. Since there is no easy way for web site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Or at least try! The NSO Group is the Israeli company that sells spyware to governments. And which evidence suggests also sells to all forms of unsavory characters, although they deny that. Evidence also says that they target journalists, activists, business executives and lawyers around the world. But they come from the Werner Von Braun […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The average time to weaponize a new bug is seven days. that means that you have about half that time to harden your system to that attack. Almost no one regularly patches serious bugs that quickly. In 2019 Threatpost said that it took organizations 102 days to patch (see link above). That was in 2019. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law firms are a target for hackers. After all, what does a law firm do? They know where the proverbial bodies are buried. Case in point. Campbell Conroy & O’Neil, law firm to companies like Apple, Boeing, Exxon Mobil, Ford, Honda, IBM, Toyota and many others, suffered a breach. They discovered the breach in February. […]
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