The average car or light truck has somewhere between 50 and 200 computers in it, depending on the model. Those computers both create data and consume data. Sometimes that fact can be quite useful. In 2017 the body of a mechanic, Ronald French, was found in a cornfield in Kalamazoo County, Michigan. For more than […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple is preparing to add a new prompt to iOS that requires users to opt-in to tracking by app developers like Facebook. It used to be that you could opt-out — if you could find the place to do that. Facebook is going to have its own screen telling you how wonderful it is to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adult Web Site Hacked; 2 Million Records Leaked Most visitors to adult web sites do not want to be “outed”, but that is exactly what happened to 2 million customers of MyFreeCams. While the data stolen (username, email, UNENCRYPTED passwords and account balance) is not that sensitive, the fact that someone has an account there […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The cops are fighting a game of whack-a-mole with the hackers and likely always will, but this week they whacked hard and had a couple of wins. In a multi-nation effort including the US, UK, Europol and many others, the good guys (and ladies) took control of the command and control servers for the Emotet […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]At the beginning of the pandemic (can you remember that far back), Teams had about 32 million daily users and was trying to compete with Slack. As of December, Teams had an estimated 115 million daily users. Teams is the defacto communications and collaboration app for anyone using Office or Microsoft 365. As of December, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Of course your first answer is no. Internal systems are only visible internally. But you made changes in a hurry to deal with Covid. Here is the story of one researcher. He is the head of hackers at an ethical hacking firm, Intigriti. Companies use software like JIRA and Asana to create tickets for all […]
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