Russian con artist Pavel Vrublevsky, founder of the dark web payment firm (credit card processor) ChronoPay and the antagonist in Brian Krebs’ 2014 book Spam Nation, was arrested in Moscow this month for fraud. In Brian’s book, he talks about the fraudulent money laundering and SMS payment schemes than Vrublevsky operated. ChronoPay “specializes” in providing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting effect of the sanctions against Russia. According to the Russian news outlet Kommersant, which claims to have sources confirming this proposal, the parties estimated they have roughly two months left before running out of available storage space. Russian firms were forced, as a result of sanctions, to turn to domestic cloud providers […]
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]First, who is NOT pulling out of Russia – at least not yet. Cloudflare and Akamai are not going to pull out of Russia. They say that pulling out would not hurt the Russian government but would hurt Russian citizens trying to access content outside of the country. Cloudflare says that if they shut down, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple Scrambles to Try and Figure Out How to Stop Stalkers From Using AirTags Their newest idea is, when you initialize a new AirTag, it will tell you that Stalking may be illegal in your country. I really, really, doubt that will have any effect. They are also shortening the time window for notifying you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Scammers Figure out How to Fake Out Facial Biometrics Multi-factor authentication is not magic. For the most part, it is software. And if software is not well written, it can be fooled. That means that we should not be surprised if scammers try to use deep fakes and other techniques to fool automated facial recognition. […]
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