The Automobile hacking community is having a bang-up year. In a Wired article today, Andy Greenberg talked about two new car hacking techniques – both completely different from the ones I have talked about before. The first one is to use the Wi-Fi network in the dealer’s waiting room to hack the diagnostic equipment in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]October 1st, 2015. Today, retailers are responsible for credit card fraud if they are not using credit card terminals that support chip credit cards. While there is a learning curve for both merchants and users, the curve is pretty small and it will reduce credit card fraud at retail stores. Gas Stations and ATMs still […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As I said last night in the article about the European Court of Justice, every national intelligence agency that has the ability to do so is vacuuming data from the Internet. The Intercept wrote a very detailed article analyzing some new documents from the Edward Snowden document dump. The article links to the original documents […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The SEC and Investment Adviser R.T. Jones (RTJ) came to an agreement last week regarding a breach that RTJ had. R.T. Jones, an investment advisor in St. Louis with about 8,000 clients, has agreements with retirement plan administrators to offer investment advice to participants in those plans via the web. To log in to the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you (all 3 of you) who follow European privacy law, you can skip this post. The rest may find it interesting. Max Schrems, who was an Austrian law student and now a lawyer has been battling Facebook in particular and claiming that they are violating E.U. law by their various privacy policies. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is a lot of ink (digital ink that is) being spilled on the topic of ad supported content. The basic theory is that ad supported content allows you the reader to get a lot of content without having to shell out cash. Notice that I didn’t say the content is free. It is not. […]
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