To call this big brother is watching would be polite. Universities are using apps on students phones and either Bluetooth beacons or WiFi to track students location including class attendance and, I would guess, how much time their spend in local bars. The attendance part is to “encourage” students to attend class. Students who do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the 9-11 attacks on The World Trade Center Twin Towers, the Pentagon and Shanksville, PA, Congress quickly and without much discussion, passed the Patriot Act, the single biggest spying operation likely ever. Under the Patriot Act, the government was able to collect information on Internet traffic, mostly of foreigners. The amount of data that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Retailer LightInTheBox Exposes 1.6 Billion Customer Records The challenge with today’s big data world is that the breaches are enormous. LightInTheBox left customer transaction data exposed due to, apparently, a server misconfiguration. They effectively breached themselves. The data was a web server log with dates from Aug 9 to Oct 11 of this year. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 2019 Crowdstrike Global Security Attitude Survey said that the total number of organizations around the world paying the ransom after falling victim to a supply chain attack almost tripled from 14% to 39%. In the UK, the number of organizations that have experienced a ransomware attack and then paid the ransom doubled from 14% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Predictions are that there are going be billions of Internet of Things devices connected to the Internet over the next few years. This past week the story has been about Amazon’s Ring camera – an example of an Internet of Things device. In one case, in Tennessee, someone hacked into a family’s Ring cameras and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Given that the cellular market is pretty well saturated in the developed world and cell companies are not likely to sell a lot of $1,200 cell phones in the developing world, Verizon, AT&T and the others are working overtime to create something to separate you from more of your money. To even the game, you […]
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