Last week news was leaked of a problem with Intel processors built since 1995. The problem – they could be hacked to possibly leak important stuff like all of your passwords. It then came out that Microsoft and the Linux community were building patches and they would be released soon. Apple said that they released […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Director Christopher Wray suggested that the tech industry follow the model of the financial services industry. Some of the big banks have created a messaging app with delete capability so to keep the regulators happy, they agreed to save a copy of each message for 7 years. Lets apply that to the tech industry […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In 2015 some 380 million international travelers arrived in the U.S. and only 8,503 of those travelers had their electronic devices searched – only .002 percent. That is a pretty small number. In 2016 there were 390 million international arrivals and CBP examined the devices of 19,033 of them – a little more than double […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Computer Cop is a piece of software that the maker sells to police departments for them to give out to the community. Departments buy thousands of copies, it appears for around $6 a copy ,and hands them out, hoping for donations. In some cases, they bought the software with seized drug money. There is only […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Several months ago the White House floated a trial balloon about banning the use of personal cell phones by staffers in the West Wing due to security concerns. You may remember that John Kelly was using his personal cell phone for government business and it was owned by hackers for six months before he figured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]UPDATE: Google’s Project Zero released information about the flaw and attacks as reports and speculation escalated (see here). Reporters, including this one, are just learning the details of this. An FAQ about the attack, which says that it affects Intel, AMD and ARM processors is available here. It does, they say, affect every microprocessor […]
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