What Does $50,000 in iPads Get You? The answer may be a prison sentence for bribery. The case is going back and forth, but now the case is back on. The head of Apple security wanted some concealed carry permits for his team and since the process wasn’t going as fast as Apple would like, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over the last few years the police have been using the large commercial DNA databases to help them find criminals. The highest profile case was their use of DNA to find the Golden State Killer (1970’s and 1980’s murders; captured in 2018). They did that by running a DNA sample against GEDMatch, one of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If You Thought the FTC Was Toothless Before, Just Wait I always complained that the FTC’s penalties were way too meek. Now I understand why, but it has just gotten MUCH worse. 99.99% of the blame goes to Congress. Initially, the FTC could not bring lawsuits against businesses at all. All they could do was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Comcast Testing Encrypted DNS While Lobbing Against It Encrypted DNS (either DoH or DoT) has become a political hotbutton. Recently Vice reported that Comcast is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars lobbying against it. Mozilla is writing to Congress saying that what Comcast is saying is not true and most interestingly, Comcast is testing its […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Old Hacks Never Die Brian Krebs is reporting that state government agencies are receiving malware laced CDs in the mail, hoping that someone is curious enough to place it in their computer and infect it. This is an older version of a ploy that is still common of dropping malware infected flash drives in areas […]
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