Backups? We’re Government IT, We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Backups…

via Sean Gallagher’s superlative blog piece ensconced at Ars Technica, detailing the astoundingly blatant stupidity exhibited by Baltimore City’s IT Department during their recent ransomware episodes.
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Boeing – Say It Ain’t So…

via Andy Greenberg, comes a particularly troubling piece, written for Wired, in which, Mr. Greenberg details the litany of ineptitude by Boeing Company (NYSE: BA) in securing their code running the company’s 787 airframe. Deeply troubling is the opera… Continue reading Boeing – Say It Ain’t So…

US-Based Company Marketing BlueKeep Exploits, Reportedly Used To Facilitate Pentesting Infected Systems

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Sounds Legit…. via Sesin
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Facebookery: All The Many Datas of Zuckerberg

via Sam Biddle, writing at The Intercept, comes this astonishing story of manifest Facebookery firmly situated within the rarified telecom world of data sharing between and betwixt the telecom leviathans and that scourge of privacy Facebook, Inc. (Nas… Continue reading Facebookery: All The Many Datas of Zuckerberg

ASUS Cloud Services: Backdoor In Motion

via the eponymous Dan Goodin, writing at Ars Technica, comes news of a cloud solution gone spuriously out-of-control. Certainly a clear-enough indication the ‘Cloud’ is not to be trusted, at any time, nor from any vendor – regardless of claims to the … Continue reading ASUS Cloud Services: Backdoor In Motion

Sub-Vocalization Aware Smart Speakers: Little Brother Has Arrived

In – perhaps – the singularly snarky and yet fundamentally true privacy piece posted targeting privacy invading smart devices on El Reg in the past couple of weeks, comes reporter Alistair Dabbs’ jaundiced (and highly entertaining) yet focused, tech-a… Continue reading Sub-Vocalization Aware Smart Speakers: Little Brother Has Arrived