Delta Airlines Terms of Service “Concern” Users that tag pictures with Delta Skymiles hashtags (#Skymileslife and #Deltamedalionlife) agree to some interesting terms and conditions according to a recently modified Delta Skymiles program terms. First, they give Delta a perpetual license to use the tagged content (photos) and (b) they warrant they are the sole owner […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Facebook is used to riding high. Not so much lately. First they said that Cambridge Analytica inappropriately captured the data of 47 million users after 250,000 or so users completed a survey and they captured the information of all of those people’s friends without their permission. Now they are saying that their arithmetic wasn’t so […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Drupal team has released a patch that they call highly critical that allows an attacker to run arbitrary code on a Drupal web site with no authentication required. All they need to do is know the URL of the web site. Drupal rates the severity of the flaw a 21 on a 1 to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Internet of Things is the newest fad. Today I heard about Internet connected sneakers. Apparently, you can change the design at will. Given that and the lack of any liability of the part of the software developer no matter what happens (when was the last time a software developer was sued for writing a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Times is reporting that The Hudson’s Bay Company that owns Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor confirmed that some number of stores run under these names and also Saks Off 5th were hacked and 5 million credit cards are available to be sold on the black market. The breach is one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]ATLANTA HIT BY RANSOMWARE ATTACK Atlanta, GA is the most recent city to get hit by a ransomware attack – on Thursday, March 22. Cities seem to be a hot target, likely because they are big, public and behind the private sector when it comes to IT and cyber security (One of Atlanta’s Councilman said “As […]
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