Conceptually, that is hard to argue with. But, as businesses of all sizes and government agencies at all levels are being hacked daily, is the ‘less is more’ philosophy correct. One thing she went after is CISA’s work on misinformation and disinformation. This is a frequent complaint of some right wingers and to some extent, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is TikTok for Sale? Maybe! Mark Cuban says the number being floated around is more than $300 billion. It is unclear if this is for TikTok US or TikTok worldwide. And maybe Musk might buy it. Given how well he did with his purchase of Twitter, if he does buy it for $300 billion, Cuban […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is interesting how “productive” the folks in DC can be when they want to. But I ask what have you been doing for the last four years. Getting my whining out of the way, there is a lot of stuff happening in this last week of the outgoing administration. The Federal Trade Commission handed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We are definitely starting with a bang. First Apple patched a flaw that affects the system integrity of macOS. Using a third-party kernel extension Microsoft discovered a vulnerability in Apple’s System Integrity Protection, a feature that if functioning correctly, will reduce the risk from operations that affect system integrity. The flaw could enable hackers to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Data broker Gravy Analytics lost control of their location data database, affecting the privacy of millions. The hacker has published a “sample” of 30 million location records. Remember, 30 million represents just a sample; we don’t know who much data was stolen in total. The data released includes location data from fitness, health, dating, transit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Orleans Truck Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Bans to Surveil French Quarter An advertising executive once said all publicity was good. I don’t think he understands terrorism. The FBI has revealed footage from the attacker’s Meta glasses that he took while going through the French Quarter on a bicycle. Not exactly the “use case” Meta wants […]
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