Police think that hackers hacked the pumps at a Detroit area gas station allowing drivers to get free gas. Ten cars figured it was okay to steal gas from “The Man” to the tune of about 600 gallons. While 600 gallons of gas is not the end of the world, it does make a point. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Deleting All Call Detail Records (CDRs) Acquired Since 2015 While the NSA is not providing a lot of details about what went wrong, the NSA is saying that it is deleting all CDRs acquired since 2015 because of technical irregularities that resulted in it receiving data that, likely, would be illegal under the current […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you can’t beat them on the battlefield, beat them in cyberspace. Israel has accused Hamas of creating a fake dating app and targeting both male and female Israeli soldiers to download the app. Once installed, the app has the ability to see the soldier’s location, contact list and to use the phone as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N To butcher a very famous quote, are we at war or not? It is clear that the Chinese and Russians are at war. We have some pretty clear information about what they have been doing and what they have stolen. What is much less clear is whether WE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For some people, they don’t really care. For other people, it is a complete invasion of privacy. For both groups, it is happening every day. Apps sometimes ask for permission to read your mail. It could be to get rid of junk mail or clean your mailbox or many other reasons, but in all cases, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]President Trump is considering signing an executive order asserting a national security emergency using the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA). While every president since Jimmy Carter has used the IEEPA to impose sanctions on governments that we don’t like, no president has ever used it to tell private companies who they should buy parts […]
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