Old Scams Never Die, They Just Get a Fresh Coat of Paint Scammers have been posing, according to a warning by DHS, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents in San Antonio. The scammers call the mark, pretending to be HSI and tell them there is a problem with their passport […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While China is a serious threat and the last administration pushed on that hard, that administration ignored Russia. Today the National Security Agency, the FBI and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agencies issued a joint alert titled Russian SVR Targets U.S. and Allied Networks. The NSA, FBI and CISA said that the Russian Foreign Intelligence […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Parler is Back Online After being down for a month after getting kicked off Amazon, Parler is back online. Existing accounts can log in now; new accounts can be created next week. They have a new interim CEO after the board fired the last one. It does not appear that old content was moved over […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is no easy answer, but I can tell you for sure that the FBI has been applying more and more resources to cybecrime every year. Just this month they unsealed seven indictments charging 16 people from China, Russia, Iran and Malaysia with hacking crimes. Treasury sanctioned 45 people associated with Iran and two people […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AG Says They Unlocked Shooter’s iPhone Without Needing Apple to Hack Their Security For a couple of decades the FBI and Justice Department has been saying that software vendors need to insert backdoors into their security software to make it easier for the government to hack it if they want to. One high profile case […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Or so says Christopher Wray, the current director of the FBI, testifying before a Congressional committee. My guess, having talked to my share of FBI agents, including today, is that he is correct. The basic premise of all police work is that the number of crimes is relatively small. No so with cyber. Also, it […]
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