As operating system vendors (Apple and Google) improve their security and make hacking their products more difficult, hackers are looking elsewhere for “ways in”. While users consider their phones a single computer, the reality is that there are whole bunch of computers under the hood. Processors for each radio in the phone such as the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What Could Possibly Go Wrong – Cali’s Digital License Plates Hacked A team of security researchers managed to gain “super administrative access” into Reviver, the company behind California’s new digital license plates which launched last year. That access allowed them to track the physical GPS location of all Reviver customers and change a section of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Trump is Not Happy About Launch of Twitter-Like Truth Social Apparently not happy is a bit of an understatement. He has a lot to lose if this is not successful. As part of the SPAC deal with Digital World, he has a lot of shares. If the stock, which is still going up slowly, tanks, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Decreased Account Takeovers by 50% by Mandating 2FA Late last year Google forced about a hundred fifty million users to start using multi-factor authentication. What results did they see? Account takeovers in that group were reduced by 50%. Google has previously said that only 10% of their users were using MFA. Now they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is probably not news to most people. What is probably news – maybe – is that even when you think you tell Google not to collect and store your location data – it does so anyway. Or, at least, that is the several lawsuits claim. In the lawsuit filed Monday in a District of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Do you use multi-factor authentication? Google says that less than 10 percent of its users use MFA. They were concerned that if they made people use MFA they would leave. Not sure what they would leave to? Who else offers as compelling a suite of software. For free. Or at least just for stealing all […]
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