Australian Emergency Notification System Hacked The Australian Emergency Warning Network, run by a private company, was hacked. The hacker sent out a message that said “EWN has been hacked. Your personal data stored with us is not safe. We are trying to fix the security issues. Please email support at .. if you want to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Worried about the NSA capturing all that metadata about you? That is the stuff about you that the government says it can collect without a warrant (and courtesy of the Patriot Act) because you send it unencrypted over the Internet and so you have no expectation of privacy. A big part of the data (besides […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many of you probably remember the very dramatic 60 Minutes segment from a few years ago where they put a reporter inside a Jeep and then disabled the brakes and watched the car go slowly into a ditch. All while the reporter videoed it (see this CBS web page). Not surprisingly, Chrysler quickly fixed the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N The President says that the shutdown is about security and I think he is right, but not in the way he is thinking. We have to take this agency by agency, but just look at the numbers. The EPA, probably no one’s favorite agency for different reasons, says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law in Effect Vietnam’s new “cybersecurity” law which requires companies to remove any content from the Internet that the government finds offensive went into effect on January 1. It also requires some companies like Facebook and Google to open offices in Vietnam if they want to continue to do business there. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers have compromised more than 50,000 Chromecast devices, Google Home smart speakers and Smart TVs using Chromecast using a five year old bug that Google knows about but chose not to fix. The attack puts a warning on the TV that the Chromecast is attached to saying it was hacked. This obviously is being done […]
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