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How to securely erase your Android device in 3 simple steps

January 13, 2024 admin Android, google, Mobile, Security, small and medium business, smartphones

It’s an inevitable moment in the smartphone-owning cycle: the point at which a newer, shinier model comes along and your trusty old device is no longer needed.

Maybe your company bought you a new Android phone. Maybe your old one was getting too slow. Or maybe you just love electronics and couldn’t resist the lure of whatever eye-catching new Android gizmo your favorite manufacturer started selling.

Whatever the case, it’s common nowadays to find yourself with an extra phone. And while there are plenty of practical uses for an old Android device, there’s also a time when the best choice is to sell, donate, or otherwise pass it along.

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The top 10 tech stories of 2023

January 13, 2024 admin Augmented Reality, careers, generative ai, Regulation, remote work, Security, Technology Industry, virtual reality

The top technology stories of 2023 highlight fundamental changes in culture and geopolitics as well as tech itself: It’s clear that generative AI will affect all aspects of technology and society, while geopolitical tensions are sparking cybersecurity attacks globally. General unease about the dominance of big tech, meanwhile, is pushing regulators to get tougher on mopolistic business practices and multibillion-dollar mergers.

Fired! Rehired! Sam Altman’s ouster and return to OpenAI

The ouster of Sam Altman as CEO of OpenAI, which sparked the modern era of generative AI when it launched ChatGPT a year earlier, was the tech industry shocker of the year. After the board issued a mysterious statement on November 17 saying that it had fired Altman for not being “consistently candid,” Microsoft announced that it would hire Altman and any other OpenAI employees who wanted to follow him out the door — which turned out to be almost all of them. OpenAI backed down and rehired Altman.

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Here’s Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You’ve Been Served!

January 13, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, Coinbase, ethan mora, judge helena m. march-kuchta, mark rasch, nick bax, ryan dellone, SIM swapping, The Coming Storm

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 13:39:37 +0000

A California man who lost $100,000 in a 2021 SIM-swapping attack is suing the unknown holder of a cryptocurrency wallet that harbors his stolen funds. The case is thought to be the first in which a federal court has recognized… Read More »

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Choosing a genAI partner: Trust, but verify

January 13, 2024 admin Artificial Intelligence, generative ai, Security, Technology Industry

Credit to Author: eschuman@thecontentfirm.com| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 10:03:00 -0800

Enterprise executives, still enthralled by the possibilities of generative artificial intelligence (genAI), more often than not are insisting that their IT departments figure out how to make the technology work.

Let’s set aside the usual concerns about genAI, such as the hallucinations and other errors that make it essential to check every single line it generates (and obliterate any hoped-for efficiency boosts). Or that data leakage is inevitable and will be next to impossible to detect until it is too late. (OWASP has put together an impressive list of the biggest IT threats from genAI and LLMs in general.)

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

January 13, 2024 admin A Little Sunshine, ad1@safe-mail.net, alexander valerievich grichishkin, andrey skvortsov, Breadcrumbs, cherepovets, constella intelligence, duanesburg central school district, grichishkin@gmail.com, icami$, icamis, icamis@4host.info, ika, jabberzeus, nameservers.ru, rescator, sal, salomon, spamdot, Spamit, tech@safe-mail.net

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2024 17:57:55 +0000

In 2020, the United States brought charges against four men accused of building a bulletproof hosting empire that once dominated the Russian cybercrime industry and supported multiple organized cybercrime groups. All four pleaded guilty to conspiracy and racketeering charges. But there is a fascinating and untold backstory behind the two Russian men involved, who co-ran Russia’s most popular spam forum for years.

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Happy 14th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

January 13, 2024 admin Other

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2023 22:16:27 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity celebrates its 14th year of existence today! I promised myself this post wouldn’t devolve into yet another Cybersecurity Year in Review. Nor do I wish to hold forth about whatever cyber horrors may await us in 2024. But I do want to thank you all for your continued readership, encouragement and support, without which I could not do what I do.

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BlackCat Ransomware Raises Ante After FBI Disruption

January 13, 2024 admin alphv ransomware, blackcat ransomware, deputy attorney general lisa o. monaco, FBI, Lawrence Abrams, Other, u.s. department of justice

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:49:43 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) disclosed today that it infiltrated the world’s second most prolific ransomware gang, a Russia-based criminal group known as ALPHV and BlackCat. The FBI said it seized the gang’s darknet website, and released a decryption tool that hundreds of victim companies can use to recover systems. Meanwhile, BlackCat responded by briefly “unseizing” its darknet site with a message promising 90 percent commissions for affiliates who continue to work with the crime group, and open season on everything from hospitals to nuclear power plants.