Sometimes a Patch Goes Sideways HP is working to figure out how to deal with a firmware update to a number of Office Jet printers that “bricked” the printers, meaning that these printers are only useful as a brick or paperweight. The will not boot and all the user gets is a blue screen with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Adds Dark Web Monitoring to GMail Users A feature that used to be available to paid Google One subscribers will soon be available to all GMail users. Dark web monitoring tells you if your GMail email address is found on the dark web (hint: almost all of them are due to thousands of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senators Ask CISA to Investigate DJI Drones A bipartisan group of Senators is asking CISA to examine drones made by companies with deep ties to the Chinese government. DJI is the 800 pound gorilla in the high end consumer drone market, drones also used by businesses and government. While this makes sense, if they do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China has long ranked at or near the top of U.S. national security officials’ list of cyber adversaries. On Wednesday, spy agency leaders warned that China is getting even bolder and better in cyberspace. The spies say that if China believed that it was on the verge of a major conflict with us, they might launch […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If You Think the Chinese Balloon Incident is a Major Wake-up call … China has been spying on the US for decades. And we have been spying on them. Kind of like Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine when we were kids. If you think that the balloon gave China important information – above the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have probably heard folks talking about nation states stealing our intellectual property. High on that list are China, North Korea, Iran and Russia. But there are many others; don’t think that those four are the only ones. Rarely, however, do we get an in depth look at how these operations work. The U.S. federal […]
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