Equifax Agrees to Pay UP TO $700 Million to Settle Breach Lawsuits First – the settlement hasn’t been agreed to by the court yet, so this is all speculation. Of the $700 million pot, at least $300 million is set aside to pay damages to consumers. Another $100 million plus is to pay for credit […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is What Spies Do It has come out that western (read one or more of the five eyes countries) inserted malware into Yandex (Russia’s equivalent of Google) in order to steal administrative credentials. The purpose was, apparently, to read emails of interest to the western spies. We need to understand that we do it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N Acting budget director Russel Vought is seeking to delay the ban of Huawei for another two years (or for a total of four years after the ban was enacted). If they are a risk to national security, is it okay to compromise national security for two more years? […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking. The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A New Reason to Not Use Huawei 5G Telecom Equipment The President has been trying to get our allies to not use Huawei equipment in the buildout of their next generation cellular networks due to concerns that the Chinese government would compromise the equipment. Now the British spy agency GCHQ is saying that Huawei’s security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over 5 Billion Records Exposed in 2018 Risk Based Security is reporting that there were 6,515 publicly reported breaches in 2018 exposing over 5 billion records. This is a couple hundred breaches less than 2017, but the final numbers are not in yet as breaches continue to be reported. The number of days between discovery […]
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