Merry Christmas from WyzGuys. Here is a bit of good news. Trademark infringement C&D done right with a sense of humor. Make sure you watch the video. The video is from Budweiser’s Facebook page. You may have to turn on the sound in the video window. Enjoy. I may even drink a Bud Light in honor of the King of Beers.
From Tech Dirt:
Minneapolis brewery, Modist Brewery, recently unveiled a new double IPA it ...
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Good news from The Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Telephone service providers will be legally able to block automated phone calls, commonly known as robocalls. The new rules enable telephone service providers to block robocalls before they get to our phones. This includes calls from phone numbers on a Do-Not-Originate (DNO) list and those numbers that show up in Caller ID that are “invalid, unallocated, or ...
I like to keep the nasty business of politics off of this website, but every now and again it rears its ugly head in ways we cannot ignore. Net neutrality is one of those issues.
Politically, I am a fiscal conservative and a social liberal, and voted Libertarian in the last election. I did not vote for Trump, and I couldn’t vote for Hilary, either. As predicted, Trump is dismantling a lot of the Obama administration’s legacy, and network neutrality is ...
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If you are traveling for the holidays, here is something else to watch for – the hidden web camera. If you are staying at an Airbnb, or even a traditional hotel or motel over the holidays, be aware that there have been incidents where web cams have been found in the rooms. Often they are disguised as other devices, such as the “motion ...
H.R.4036 – formerly called the Active Cyber Defense Certainty (ACDC) Act and informally called the hack-back bill – was introduced as an amendment to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA) last week. Introduced by Georgia Republican Tom Graves, and Arizona Democrat Kyrsten Sinema, in the House of Representatives. ...
Happy Halloween! Nothing like a scary story to end the holiday. The scary story in cybersecurity is that Kaspersky anti-malware and security products are in league with the Putin government and the FSB in Russia. The FBI is advising government agencies to drop Kaspersky and find a new endpoint security solution.
Kaspersky Lab is a Russian multinational cybersecurity and anti-virus provider headquartered in Moscow, Russia and operated through a holding company in the United Kingdom. Kaspersky was founded by Eugene ...
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At the end of September, the Senate passed the MAIN STREET Cybersecurity Act for Small Business. This is an effort to help small businesses deal with the technical aspects and costs associated with creating a cybersecurity program and protecting their digital assets from attack or compromise. The Act instructs NIST to create a plan for small businesses that is based on the NIST Cybersecurity ...
A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.Tech company Gravity Payments instituted a $70 K minimum wage two years ago. It has long been my personal contention that the drop in real starting wages (against inflation) coupled with crushing ...
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We already have some highly sophisticated weapons systems that use computer technology and electronics to do things on a battlefield undreamed of even a few decades ago. This does include robotic weapons systems. The important ingredient in all this tech is the presence of human control. At this point in time it still takes a human to drive these war machines.
But we are not the far from being able to create ...
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