Microsoft’s map of organizations hit by the SolarWinds hack. I keep hearing this from people I respect: It’s hard to overstate how serious the SolarWinds hack is. So, yes, it seems to be the Big One. I suspect we’ll be hearing about the damage for years. This piece is a [Keep reading]
Downdetector.com chart It’s been a bad few days for the Internet. Google, Amazon, security firm FireEye, and several federal agencies — like the Department of Commerce — have all suffered major incidents or outages recently. The government attack, involving widely-used management software named Solar Winds, gave hackers access to critical [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION Bitcoin is back, soaring 150% in 2020, and on Wednesday reached heights it hadn’t seen since 2017. Of course, if you dealt with a ransomware gang in the past three years, you know Bitcoin never left. You might have missed the news recently, overshadowed as it was by the [Keep reading]
This report really is worth reading “After hearing that Facebook is saying that posting the Lord’s Prayer goes against their policies, I’m asking all Christians please post it. Our Father, who art in Heaven…” Someone posted this obvious falsehood on Facebook recently, and it ended up on my wall. Soon [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION Rhonda Foxx is the newly-minted Head of Social Equity Policies & Engagements at Intel. Before that, she was chief of staff for Rep. Alma Adams (D-N.C.) and ran for Congress earlier this year. During a recent talk at Duke University, she called the current pandemic “a period of great reset.” It’s [Keep reading]
Georgia suffered major voting machine malfunctions, according to Election Integrity Foundation Chairman Harri Hursti. Voting machines were “incorrectly loaded,” according to WSB-TV. Hursti said there were a variety of malfunctions. In Spalding County, there was “100 percent failure in the beginning,” Hursti said. “People came ready to wait but…..clearly, they [Keep reading]
You probably remember “Stop, Drop, and Roll” — shorthand instructions for what to do if you catch fire. For years, I have recommended something similar to Internet users when they encounter anything suspicious — Stop chatting, Drop the conversation, and Roll your chair away from the keyboard. I usually intend [Keep reading]
Before I get into my pragmatic guide for watching the election results roll in tonight, please take a moment to think about the real star of today’s historic event: The poll worker. There is so much pressure on election staff this year. There’s a deluge of mail-in ballots, there’s demands [Keep reading]
INTRODUCTION In the U.S. media guilty of misinformation on disinformation? As election day fast approaches, election hacking continues to attract lots of attention. It’s a vague term that has been used to describe everything from nation-state actors changing voter registration records to politicians discrediting mail-in ballots. Perhaps nothing has caused [Keep reading]
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