Australia-based online monitoring and safety provider Family Zone today announced it will acquire competitor Qustodio and its subsidiaries in a deal valued at $52 million, according to a news release.
Millions in the UK could be using insecure routers according to an investigation carried out by
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A survey of more than 6,000 adults conducted in December 2020 found that millions of households could be using devices which are more than five years old and are no longer being supported with firmware updates.
Among the security flaws discovered were weak default passwords which are easy to guess by hackers, as well as local network vulnerabilities which would allow hackers to direct users to malicious websites.
Which? claims it sent some of the most used older devices to security specialists Red Maple Technologies, who discovered problems with more than half of them which included ISPs such as Virgin, Sky, TalkTalk, EE and Vodafone.
executive summary, iowa senator chuck grassley asked for it. it is i mean it is mind blowing. some lowlights from the report. senior attorney at the sec, senior attorney at sec in washington spent up to eight hours a day downloading porn. eight hours a day? when he ran out of hard drive space he burned dvds and kept them at the office close at hand. so to speak. another staffer repeatedly tried to download porn, bypass web filters, when warned by his boss to stop or lose his job, he refused to stop and quit instead. summary provided to senator grassley says the sec conducted 33 probes over the last five years, 31 in 2 1/2 years and 16 in 2008. now what happened in 2008? hmm 2008. oh, yeah, bernie madoff, the ponzi scheme, biggest ever, tens of billions of dollars. guess what stolen under the nose of the sec.
some offenders have been dismissed by the sec and an agency spokesperson tells fox each of the offending employees has been disciplined or is in the process of doing business palestinianed. some have been suspended or dismissed. we will not tolerate those who bring discredit to thousands of hard working colleagues. that spokesperson says every violation found by the sec was detected by its own web filters and that since the sec discovered the misconduct back in february, they ve increased the penalties for this type of behavior. nicole collins live in the nation s capitol, thanks so much. you bet. newly released e-mails show top executives at goldman sachs boasting about its profits during the u.s. mortgage meltdown. in one, ceo writes, quote, of course we didn t dodge the mortgage mess. we lost money, then made more than we lost because of shorts. he was referring to the practice of shorting or betting against an investment.
staffer at the sec. name and title were redacted. he said, quote, kind of one of those things where i felt kind of stressed it was kind of there and i guess i didn t have the self control not to look ate. again he is talking about porn. for the record no it wasn t just there popping up on his screen when he booted up in the morning. he went looking for it. even turning off porn blocking filters in his web browser. none of this would matter, this guy was on the job at the sec and we pay his salary. here is a nother report, executive summary, iowa senator chuck grassley asked for it. it is mind blowing. some lowlights from the report. senior attorney at the sec, senior attorney at sec in washington spent up to eight hours a day downloading porn. eight hours a day? when he ran out of hard drive space he burned dvds and kept them at the office close at hand. so to speak. another staffer repeatedly tried to download porn, bypass web filters, when warned by his boss to stop or lose his job h