For those companies who have customers in California – independent of where the company is located – or are doing business in Europe, you have new privacy regulations to deal with. While California’s law doesn’t go into effect for another 16 months and it is possible that there will be changes to the law before […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Given Russia’s and China’s seeming insatiable desire to know everything possible about us, it is reasonable that they would try and target the 2020 Census. Congress has been asking questions about the security of the Census process for the last several years and not getting any answers that they like. We are getting pretty close […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Old Hacks Never Die Brian Krebs is reporting that state government agencies are receiving malware laced CDs in the mail, hoping that someone is curious enough to place it in their computer and infect it. This is an older version of a ploy that is still common of dropping malware infected flash drives in areas […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]All of us are used to using the Internet, right? What if you moved into your new home and after you paid for it and moved in you found out there was no Internet service available? One business in New York was told that Charter Communications, the local cable provider, would be happy to connect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the ongoing saga of IoT security (The score is bad guys: a whole bunch, good guys: not very many), the bad guys continue to win. Researchers analyzed Samsung’s house management hub called SmartThings and found 20 problems. The researchers, part of Cisco, said that the attacks are complex and require the attackers to chain […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While I have written about this in general before, this item is specific to the Land Rover and its “Discovery” model. If this is a surprise to you, it should not be. If you buy a used Land Rover, it is possible (likely) that the previous owner can still control your car through the Land […]
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