I often say that the US Internet access ranks right up there with many third world countries. Now I have the data to prove it. Ookla, the company that makes and runs the SPEEDTEST software, reports every month on Internet speed around the world. This year, in the wired category (the kind you likely have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Why care? Hackers often lurk inside networks for weeks or months. During this time they gather a lot of information about how the network works, what it looks like and even how it is secured. With people working from home, often on poorly maintained — scratch that — unmaintained networks, that job just became a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design have published details about BrakTooth, a new family of security vulnerabilities in Bluetooth software implementations. They assessed 13 Bluetooth devices from about a dozen vendors including Intel, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Cypress and found 16 vulnerabilities. On the good side, they can cause a denial of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Offers Fixes For Broken iPhone 12s While not exactly a security issue, Apple is offering to fix defective iPhone 12s that were made between October 2020 and April 2021 and which have a defective receiver module component. That is mighty kind of them since every single one of them is still under warranty and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, we assume that it is. After all, we think our data is sold all the time. But mega-data-company Thompson Reuters ran across a judge that disagrees. We shall see where the appeals go. The case hinges on a product that TR sells called CLEAR. If you sign up as a CLEAR customer then you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One possible answer is that they wanted to steal your email, impersonate you and use your email accounts to send spam and malware. This is certainly possible, but there is another, more sinister possibility. What if – China was looking for mountains of data to train its AI systems? The attacks gave them tens of […]
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