China and Russia Continue to Interfere with the Elections According the the White House, China has been targeting the US election infrastructure ahead of the election and Russia has been trying to undercut Democratic candidate Joe Biden, much like their did with Clinton in 2016. Could it be that Russia thinks that the Republican Administrations […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Considering Buying TikTok In light of President Trump’s threats to ban TikTok, Microsoft says that it is considering buying the company from its Chinese owners. That would be a win-win-win for Microsoft. They would add another social media platform to their inventory. The can probably buy it at fire sale prices and they would […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Minneapolis City Web Sites Hit by Denial of Service Attacks Last Thursday, early in the morning, a number of City of Minneapolis web sites were disabled by denial of service attacks. The attacks are short lived and the city was able to restore most of the services within a few hours. It is certainly possible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember that Real-ID Deadline we Were Worried About Since planes seem to be flying with less passengers than flight crew members these days – if they fly at all – the gov has decided to make some security changes. In addition to the fact that they are allowing you to bring a 12 ounce bottle […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Behind Cyberattacks on Country of Georgia Last Year The State Department and the UK say that Russia was behind the attack on over ten thousand websites in the Country of Georgia last year. They also formally attributed Sandworm (AKA Voodoo Bear, Telebots and BlackEnergy) to Russia’s GRU Unit 74455. Sandworm is the group responsible […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
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