When companies like Microsoft or Oracle develop software, they have massive teams who’s only job is to try and find bugs in the software. They also have made significant investments automated tools to help with software quality assurance. Still Microsoft usually patches 10-20 new bugs month after month. Oracle often patches 100 bugs a quarter. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Great Email Hack of 2016 is becoming the Great Email Hack of Forever. It appears that Russian hackers are targeting progressive groups in the U.S., hacking their emails and threatening to release embarrassing emails if they do not pay an extortion, in bitcoin. According to Bloomberg News, at least a dozen groups have been […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google has been ordered by a magistrate judge in Philadelphia to turn over emails stored abroad. While we don’t have all the details of the case, it appears to be related to a domestic fraud case. The emails in question are stored in a foreign country. The case is a domestic case. Last summer, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like the spy-guys (or is it spy-people) can’t seem to catch a break. First it was Snowden; more recently it was Martin – both Booz Allen contractors at the NSA. Now it is the CIA. Wikileaks published thousands of documents, which appear to be real, describing CIA hacking tools. This includes, supposedly, at […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We tend to think of 911 as ubiquitous across the United States. In reality, the thousands of PSAPs, as 911 contact centers are formally known, are a patchwork of aged technology that makes many of us cringe. A Public Safety Answering Point is run locally by a city or county and dispatches fire, police, ambulance […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Washington Post is reporting that Vice President Mike Pence used a personal email account to conduct government business when he was Governor of Indiana. The Veep says that his use of a personal email account is different than Clinton’s use of a personal email account and I do not want to turn this into […]
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