Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A US government worker has been arrested and charged with spying for Ethiopia. The problem is so bad that companies with government contracts have to create an insider threat program, provide annual training for all employees and designate an officer to be the Insider Threat Program Senior Official (ITPSO) – the person who will get […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Couple of Annoyed Redditors Launched Website to Anonymously Rate Your Landlord – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? While I understand why some folks might be annoyed at their landlord, how do you verify anything that is on the site? Until now there really hasn’t been a way to figure out whether a landlord treats […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Chris Inglis Leaving White House Cyber Director White House jobs are hard. Even for a Brigadier General. News outlets are reporting that he will leave that post in early 2023. Before coming to the White House, he was the deputy director of the NSA. His experience will be missed. He did say early on that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Investigating Multiple Windows 11 Issues While some of the issues are not fatal, others like a memory leak in File Manager that can only be recovered from by rebooting are more of a problem. I recommend waiting for a month or two in order for other users to detect more bugs. Credit: Bleeping Computer […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
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