It seems that the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights is increasing enforcement actions against health care providers and their vendors (known as business associates). While one might have suspected that enforcement actions would be down under this administration, in fact, the opposite is true and fines are up. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Adobe’s December patch list fixed 87 separate bugs in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader. 39 of these are rated critical. Last week they patched a critical zero day in Flash (Details here). More Spy Cams The other day I reported the the DEA was buying spy camera enclosures to hide inside of street […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Swatting is the practice of phoning in fake 911 calls about life threatening situations and having SWAT respond to random houses, scaring the crap out of the occupants and often times doing thousands of dollars of damage, which the municipality has to pay for using tax dollars. Earlier this year a gamer swatted what he […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Rob Joyce, long time NSA cyber executive, former special assistant to the President for cybersecurity, cybersecurity coordinator for the National Security Council and all around cyber guru says that we are in trouble. He said that Chinese cyber attacks have increased in recent months, targeting critical infrastructure. He says that he is worried that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sextortion is malware that tries to convince you that the attacker has compromised your computer and has videos of you visiting adult web sites. The attackers promise not to share the videos with your friends if you pay them money. The videos do not exist, but scared people sometimes pay. The new variant of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Australian Parliament Passes Crypto Back Door Law Overnight Politics always wins. After the Prime Minister said that the opposition party was supporting terrorism, the opposition completely folded after claiming that Parliament would implement amendments after the first of the year. Since politicians lie about 99.99% of the time, the party in power is now saying […]
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