Feds Give Another Chip Maker Subsidy to Build in US Last week the feds announced a subsidy to Taiwan Semi to build multiple chip plants (fabs) in Arizona. This week the feds announced, based on last year’s CHIPS Act, a subsidy to Samsung to build multiple plants in Texas. This creates a lot of construction […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dallas Mavericks Owner and Crypto Guru lost $1M to Scam Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who fancies himself a crypto guru just got a crypto wallet drained of about a million bucks. He says that he may have downloaded a fake version of a crypto wallet app. Oh, well, so now instead of being a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The help desk was operated by a third party. The hackers conned the help desk, it is reported, to reset all of the two factor methods that were set up to protect a super-admin account. They likely did this after they phished an employee for his/her userid and password. They used deceptive phone calls to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Caesars Entertainment, which calls itself the U.S.’s largest casino chain, sort of says it paid a ransom to avoid the online leak of customer data stolen in a recent cyberattack. The attack compromised the chain’s loyalty database, which, according to them, includes driver’s license numbers and social security numbers of many customers. Caesar’s 8-K filed […]
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