Oops – Office Depot Mimics Phone Phishers Thanks to reader Gina for this one. Office Depot got caught scamming its customers telling them they had (fake) malware on their computers when they asked OD and its vendor Support.com to scan their computers. No, they didn’t have malware – just a bill for unneeded services. While […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Asks Google for Information on ALL People Near Certain Crimes Now that we know that Google tracks you even if you ask nicely for it not to, this news from BBC becomes more interesting. The FBI issued a search warrant to Google for information on all people within a 100 acre block around a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Politics being what it is, the FBI and DNC, a year after the attack on the DNC, are fighting over who did what and when. Since everyone in Washington has to cover their rear ends, this is not a particular surprise, especially after Comey’s “We are investigating Clinton again …. oh, false alarm” letters to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Director Comey has talked a lot about the “going dark” problem but we now have some statistics on the problem. So far this fiscal year, the FBI has received 6,814 devices – phones or computers – to forensically examine. Of those devices, only 2,095 of them had any form of password on the device. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A few months ago Apple and the FBI seemed to be locked in a fight to the death over a request to unlock a phone belonging to the now dead San Bernadino shooter. The FBi attempted to use the 18th century All Writs Act to get Apple to write new software that undermined the security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Carbonite: Carbonite sent out an email to all customers to reset their passwords. They claim that they have not been hacked but that they are seeing a large number of attempts to log in by third parties. They say that based on their security review, they have no evidence that they have been hacked. If […]
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