Just a Wee Bit Over the Top There is a nut job who bought an old cold war era bunker in Germany and turned it into a “bullet-proof” hosting center similar to what we see in Russia and elsewhere – where they let you host anything, legal or otherwise. Apparently the Germans got tired of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Back in May Microsoft released Windows 10 Build 1903, AKA the May 2019 update. Suffice it to say, Microsoft has had more than its share of problems with 1903, so if you are not there yet, I would not install it. It is quite embarrassing for Microsoft that more than 90 days after the release, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember That Vague Client Alert Earlier This Week? For those of you who are clients, you received an out of cycle client alert on Tuesday (they usually come out on Wednesday) providing a copy of the Homeland Security Alert on the Sodinokibi ransomware going after Managed Service Providers or MSPs. It now appears that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Researchers Hack WPA 3 Again The WiFi Alliance has always keep their documents secret. The only way that you even get a copy of the specs is to become a member and that will cost you $5k-$20k a year, depending on your role. The same team that reported the bugs called Dragonblood found these new […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You moved your applications to the cloud. Now you don’t have to worry about managing IT systems. The headaches are someone else’s. Well sort of. Here is what customers of Quickbooks cloud hosting provider iNSYNNQ are seeing when they try to log on: This is what they have been seeing for the last three days. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Asus Was Not Alone I wrote about the Asus supply chain attack in March (search for Asus in the blog search box). Attackers, somehow, compromised the development environment, injected malware and allowed the system to compile, digitally sign and distribute it through the software update process. Hundreds of thousands of clients were infected as a […]
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