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]Ransomware as a Chaos Mechanism This version of ransomware doesn’t require much skill. Rather than encrypting files and demanding a ransom, they are just deleting as many files as possible and watching the chaos with some popcorn and beer. Even if the company has good backups, and many don’t, it can still cause downtime, supply […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Administration Announces Preliminary Agreement for New High Tech Chip Factories in Arizona As you may remember, during the pandemic the shortage of chips caused widespread product shortages for everything from phones to cars. Congress passed the CHIPS act to subsidize companies who manufactured chips in the U.S. at a higher cost rather than in less […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Like Everyone Else, Reddit Plans to Sell User Content to AI Model Devs Seeing dollar signs in their future, Reddit decided to “license” their user created content to AI developers to train their models. The FTC is investigating in light of Reddit’s planned IPO. Reddit says it isn’t breaking the law to sell their user’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacking and Stealing Your Car From the Outside Through Your Headlight Apparently this is real. Crooks can pop off the headlight trim on some cars and get access to the cables to your “smart” headlights. From there they have access to the data bus called the CAN bus and from there they can unlock and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry, this is going to be a bit convoluted, so try to stay with me. First we had encryption. Things were good. Encryption was based on mathematically hard problems and computers could not do the math, even in, potentially, a hundred thousand years. Then came Quantum computing. Or at least it is coming. Or maybe […]
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