Even though we keep telling people not to enable Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) on Internet facing servers, a recent check showed there were still a million servers vulnerable. “In recent years, criminals deploying targeted ransomware like BitPaymer, Ryuk, Matrix, and SamSam have almost completely abandoned other methods of network ingress in favor of using […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You moved your applications to the cloud. Now you don’t have to worry about managing IT systems. The headaches are someone else’s. Well sort of. Here is what customers of Quickbooks cloud hosting provider iNSYNNQ are seeing when they try to log on: This is what they have been seeing for the last three days. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FTC Approves $5 Billion Fine for Facebook The FTC commissioners reportedly approved an approximately $5 billion fine of Facebook for violating the 2011 consent decree in conjunction with the Cambridge Analytica mess. To put that in perspective, Facebook’s revenue just for 4th quarter of last year was $16.9 billion and their profit for that quarter […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There has been a lot of hype surrounding the next generation of cellular technology and while 5G is definitely cool, we need to make sure that we don’t get the cart before the horse. #1 – Everyone has to buy a new phone. Apple watchers think that Apple should release it’s first 5G phone before […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All smartphones are data collection machines; hopefully everyone understands that. There are an amazing number of sensors on the device and many apps just ask for everything. If the user grants that, then the app can harvest all that data and likely sell it, either individually or in the aggregate. Researchers took a tiny sample […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let me first say that there is nothing illegal about what follows. You may not like it, but it is not illegal. Using a public records request, Motherboard obtained a user manual for the Palantir surveillance system called Gotham. The system is used by law enforcement around country (including, for example, New York, New Orleans, […]
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