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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember the Panama Papers hack? 11 million documents stolen causing one Prime Minister to resign and another to be fired? If not, check out an old post here . That hack caused the law firm of Mossack Fonseca to go out of business. We it seems that some other firms may be on the wrong […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you believe all of the news reports, quantum computers are here and can break all of the encryption that we have ever used. A bit hyperbolic. Dorothy Denning, a very well know security researcher who has written 4 books and over 200 articles while teaching at Purdue, Georgetown and the Naval Postgraduate School wrote […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC to Investigate Centurylink In an example of “can you believe this”, Ajit Pai, who earlier this year said that the FCC can’t regulate Internet providers wants to investigate why Internet provider Centurylink had an outage today that affected 911 call centers across the country. Centurylink, who told people earlier today that if they had […]
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