According to the cyber security firm Trend Micro, the members of the U.S. Senate and their staff could be the next target of the Russian hacking group Fancy Bear – the same group linked to the DNC hack an election meddling across the Middle East and Europe. Trend says that digital breadcrumbs found so far […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A little over a year ago, the Mirai botnet launched a sustained attack on the servers of the Internet provider Dyn, taking it offline and thereby knocking its customers, including Twitter, the Guardian, Netflix, Reddit, CNN and others, offline. The Mirai botnet was simple – find Internet of Things devices (IoT) that still had their default […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if it wasn’t already a bad enough month for Intel, it just got a bit worse. This is not related to Spectre or Meltdown; this is an entirely new problem. Intel processors have a remote management engine called Active Management Technology or AMT. This allows corporate administrators to remotely take over those computers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is hard to believe that, in this day and age, people are still using faxes, but they are surprisingly popular, still, in businesses. And extremely error prone. There is no error checking mechanism in a fax machine. You type in a number, stick the pages in and they are transmitted to the other end. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NOTE: THE CONTENTS OF THIS POST MAY NOT BE SUITABLE FOR YOUNGER READERS. A 28 year old Ohio man has been indicted for creating and installing malware on hundreds of Apple Mac and Microsoft Windows computers. The man, Phillip Durachinsky, used the software to spy on people. This includes recording what the camera and microphone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said in an earlier post, after 9-11 Congress passed some major new surveillance laws. The idea was to increase surveillance in a move to try and find more terrorists. Congress also wasn’t completely sold on the idea, so the law sunsets every few years and Congress has to renew it. This is one […]
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