Are You the Victim of Covid Fraud? As if Covid wasn’t bad enough, there are widespread stories of people getting tax forms for their Covid unemployment benefits -benefits they never applied for and never received, but which are considered taxable income. In California alone, crooks stole at least $11 billion in unemployment benefits by stealing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I have reported before, retailers don’t really care whether the smart devices that you buy are secure. Home Depot is one of those vendors and when asked about dumb smart devices, they said: “We require all vendors to follow applicable laws, regulations, and industry standards”. Of course, there are virtually no laws, regulations or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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