A New Reason to Not Use Huawei 5G Telecom Equipment The President has been trying to get our allies to not use Huawei equipment in the buildout of their next generation cellular networks due to concerns that the Chinese government would compromise the equipment. Now the British spy agency GCHQ is saying that Huawei’s security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC to Investigate Centurylink In an example of “can you believe this”, Ajit Pai, who earlier this year said that the FCC can’t regulate Internet providers wants to investigate why Internet provider Centurylink had an outage today that affected 911 call centers across the country. Centurylink, who told people earlier today that if they had […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Score One For Amazon Security! People who have read my blog for a while know that I am a big fan of two factor authentication. That little bit of extra security usually gets thrown out the window if you call in to customer service instead of logging in to the company’s web site. Two factor […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AgentRun is a startup that helps independent insurance agents and brokers manage customer relationships (CRM) and they are the latest company to do the perp walk for leaving an Amazon storage bucket unprotected. Compromised were thousands of client’s sensitive data files like insurance policy documents, health data, medical data, social security and medicare cards, blank […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Amazon is selling facial recognition technology that it has developed – called Rekognition – to law enforcement agencies and maybe others – Amazon won’t say. While there is nothing illegal about this and if Amazon doesn’t do it, others likely would, it certainly raises privacy concerns. Two police departments that are known to have purchased […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember a few weeks ago when Amazon said they had a solution to packages being stolen off people’s porches? It involved a remote control door lock and a security camera. Many people – not just security people – winced at the idea. After all, what could possibly go wrong? Well just a couple of weeks […]
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