In a move that the White House says is for security, John Kelly is considering banning personal cell phones. On one hand, you can’t blame them. After all, Kelly’s own personal cell phone was hacked for six months before they figured it out. On a self serving theme, it is possible that it might cut […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you who have been around the Denver cyber security scene, Chris Roberts is a bit of an icon. For those of you who do not know him, he is a white hat hacker who most recently got some undesired fame when he tweeted about hacking a Boeing 737 he was on. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel issued an alert for owners of select PCs, Servers and IoT devices running Intel Core processors shipped since 2015. The firmware in those computers may be vulnerable to attack. The attacks may give hackers access to privileged system information and allow attackers to take over those computers. MOST of the attacks require local access, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In case you thought you were being paranoid, you were not. Have you ever gone to a web site, wandered around but never clicked on anything and then closed the browser only to see an ad for whatever you were looking at show up on some other web site? There is a reason for that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This may turn out to be a lesson in Internet law for everyone. In October 2016, hackers breached Uber’s systems and made off with personal information for 57 million customers. They also made off with other information for 7 million Uber drivers and 600,000 drivers license numbers. Uber says that no socials or credit cards […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have long complained about ads on web sites delivering malicious content in addition to ads. In fact, I have even advocated blocking ads because of it, but since most web sites exist because of the revenue generated from those ads, the ad content is only getting more invasive. There have been many incidents of […]
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