Identity Theft, Credit Reports, and You
"This article assumes that you’ve either checked a credit report or been told by a bank that an account exists in your name which you didn’t open."
465,000 patients have implanted pacemakers with critical security vulnerability
"Pacemakers from Abbott Laboratories contain critical flaws that allow hijackers within radio range to seize control while the pacemakers are running. The update will require patients to visit a clinic where doctors will put the pacemakers in backup mode while the firmware is being patched. The Abbott letter said that, for certain patients, the update should be performed 'in a facility where temporary pacing and pacemaker generator change are readily available, due to the very small estimated risk of firmware update malfunction.'"
The man who wanted to split California into six states now wants to make it three
"Tim Draper filed his proposed 2018 ballot initiative on Friday asking voters to split California into three new states: Northern California, California and Southern California. 'The citizens of the whole state would be better served by three smaller state governments while preserving the historical boundaries of the various counties, cities, and towns,' Draper wrote in the initiative's statement of findings."
Investment firm VanEck calls bitcoin a ‘fad,’ then files for bitcoin ETF
"Money management firm VanEck is both skeptical of bitcoin and planning to sell a related investment product, illustrating a rising perception that the surge of interest in the digital currency creates a high-risk opportunity that may be too big to miss."
‘Shadow Margin’ Borrowing With Stock Soars as Market Rises
"Wall Street brokerages have been selling billions of dollars in loans backed by stocks and bonds, a trend that yields lucrative fees for the firms but poses risks for borrowers."
How Donald Trump’s travel ban has hit Iran’s tourism renaissance
"For visitors the lure is the culture and history of a sophisticated civilisation, with no fewer than 19 Unesco heritage sites, which had been inaccessible for decades when Iran was shunned as a pariah state. Now the country is also viewed as safe in comparison with other states offering similar attractions in the region – Syria, Egypt, Turkey, Tunisia, Libya – places which have become no-go areas due to the varying degrees of threats from terrorism or civil war. Mr Trump’s repeated threat to withdraw the US from the nuclear agreement, achieved through years of painstaking negotiations, is creating concern that Iran will be pushed back towards isolation."
A Cannabis Company Just Bought a Whole Town To Create A ‘Weed Village’
"American Green is a cannabis company based in Arizona, but they just bought the small California town of Nipton, located in San Bernardino County, and plan to convert into a municipality with a cannabis theme. The company has a 'state of the art' cultivation facility in Arizona and also sells hemp-based CBD (cannabidiol) products online and works to develop cannabis apps. They just spent five million dollars to obtain Nipton and plan to spend another $2.5 million creating their cannabis tourist attraction over the next 18 months." Continue reading →
Broadcom chip bug opened 1 billion phones to a Wi-Fi-hopping worm attack
"It fills the airwaves with probes that request connections to nearby computing devices. When the specially devised requests reach a device using the BCM43xx family of Wi-Fi chipsets, the attack rewrites the firmware that controls the chip. The compromised chip then sends the same malicious packets to other vulnerable devices, setting off a potential chain reaction." Continue reading →
Medical Devices Are the Next Security Nightmare
"There's a need to protect patients, so that attackers can't hack an insulin pump to administer a fatal dose. And vulnerable medical devices also connect to a huge array of sensors and monitors, making them potential entry points to larger hospital networks. That in turn could mean the theft of sensitive medical records, or a devastating ransomware attack that holds vital systems hostage until administrators pay up." Continue reading →
Jeff Sessions’ Days Numbered, But His Replacements Aren’t Much Better
"The two candidates with the best possibility of being appointed to the newly vacant Attorney General position are Rudy Giuliani and Ted Cruz – neither of which have a favorable track record when it comes to marijuana policy." Continue reading →
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