The Swedish government has become embroiled in a scandal after an IT outsourcing deal went horribly wrong. There was an old TV commercial that included the line “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”, implying that IBM was a safe bet. Not in this case. The Swedish Transport Agency decided to outsource it’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is one of those pretty strange stories. An Albuquerque man is in jail charged with beating and threatening his girlfriend and the prime witness is …. yes … an Amazon Echo. The suspect, Eduardo Barros, was arrested July 2nd after a standoff with Albuquerque SWAT police officers. The couple was house sitting for the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An interesting vulnerability was just announced that affects both Apple and Google/Android phones. That is something that is very unusual. The bug is tied to a part of all cell phones called the baseband processor. It is the part of the phone that controls the radios inside your phone. In this case, the chip is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fedex was one of the companies that announced last month that they were affected by the Petya un-ransomware (it operated like ransomware, but there was no decryption key, even if you paid the ransom). It is interesting that most of the time there is some sort of malware attack you do not get much information, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It used to be that large companies could control the news cycle. Used to be, that is. Now, with social media, in reality, no one is in control of the news cycle. Dow Jones, the parent company of the Wall Street Journal, whom you would think would know a thing or two about the news […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lately we have had the opportunity to see inside some ransomware attacks and what the cost has been to businesses. For example, I wrote about the Petya malware and what it did to the shipping giant Maersk and the law firm giant DLA Piper. Now we get to find out what happened inside a different […]
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