Facebook Says: Give Us Your Data or Pay For Facebook That is a slight paraphrase, but not much. In light of Apple’s new requirement to ask users for their permission to steal their data, Facebook and others are mounting a full assault on their users. First of all, Facebook grossed $26 billion in the first […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Ever see a scene in the movies where the cops (or the bad guys) plant a tracking device on someone and later catch the person doing something? Ever hear stories about an ex stalking his or her former partner? Well Apple just made that ‘affordable’. Probably too affordable. And folks have already tested it. Like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Talk about a political football, oh my. Florida has passed a law outlawing them. Not sure that Florida is a bastion of privacy – just wants to stick it to certain folks. But, if some other state or other company requires it, the law is meaningless. Lets say, just making something up, that New York […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The GAO, formerly known as the General Accounting Office, works for Congress and does studies of how horribly inefficient the government is. In theory, that is so Congress can create new laws to make them do what any sensible organization would do without the laws. Here is one example. The GAO reviewed the security practice […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Signal Tells Cellebrite to Back Off Signal is the encrypted message app created by white hat hacker Moxie Marlinspike and his team. Cellebrite is the Israeli company that cracks cells phones for law enforcement. Cellebrite claims to be able to crack Signals messages (it is not clear if they are breaking the crypto or have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well that is a pretty depressing headline, but that is what the statistics say. According to a Sophos study, the average cost of a ransomware attack jumped from $761,000 to $1.85 million over the last year. The average ransomware payment is now $170,000. More worrysome, only 8% of the organizations say that they got all […]
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