Oxygen equipment maker Inogen announced that information on 30,000 customers was hacked as an attacker compromised the credentials of an employee. In the grand scheme of breaches, this one barely registers. Yes, HIPAA protected information was taken (and Health and Human Services may come after them in say 2021, but it is another example of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel will NOT be patching all of its flawed chips After saying, for months, that it would release firmware updates to all chipsets produced in the last 5 years, Intel is now backtracking saying that it won’t produce patches for the Bloomfield line, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, Penryn, SoFIA 3GR, the Wolfdale line, and the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SESTA/FOSTA was a bill that was supposedly designed to shut down sex trafficking sites on the Internet by effectively repealing the protections provided by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act which protects online service providers like Facebook and Google from being prosecuted for the postings of their users. The bills, which have been around […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over a million drones have been sold to the hobby market in the U.S. alone. Some have been sold with more nefarious purposes intended. To make matters worse, the FAA expects that number to triple – to over 4 million drones – by 2021. Drones are used by farmers to manage their fields, to inspect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about the problem of fake cell towers in DC. Well, the story has some interesting twists and turns. First, the largest maker of these devices (at least as best we know) is Harris Corp., maker of the Stingray family. Harris has been so closed mouthed about them that they have made […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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