GJK Consulting LLC

11/28/2023

Privacy or profit?

Google's recently been accused of "privacy washing", despite claiming its a privacy-focused company. But what is privacy washing?

04/08/2023

Who needs coding?

We asked ChatGPT to help us write some ransomware. It threw aside its safeguards and wrote some terrible code.

02/27/2023

Two factor authentication (2FA) is deployed by many and more and more applications are requiring it, however not all 2FA apps are on the up and up.

Even in Apple’s and Google’s “walled gardens”, there are plenty of 2FA apps that are either dangerously incompetent, or unrepentantly malicious. (Or perhaps both.)

02/07/2023

If you are lax in updating your software don't be surprised when hit with Ransomware.

To borrow from HHGttG, please DON’T PANIC. But if you are two years out of date with patches, please do ACT NOW!

01/17/2023

Interesting, but not sure how far this will go other than to possibly wake up parents to what their kids are doing online.

A whole school district in Seattle is suing social media giants for causing harm to kids and youths.

12/05/2022

iPhones gets a 9th security update.

We grabbed the update, based on no information at all, just in case we came across a reason to advise you not to. So far, so good…

12/05/2022

Check your browsers:

Ninth more unto the breach, dear friends, ninth more.

12/05/2022

Tiktok continues to have security risks - both from the Chinese government and bad actors.

Attackers are banking on the popularity of a TikTok challenge to lure their victims into installing an information stealer

10/16/2022

Remember: Most businesses cannot survive without a strong IT foundation

02/11/2022

Two factories used by Western Digital and Kioxia have been affected.

01/18/2022

Time to avoid Safari on all Apple products.

There’s a tiny data leakage bug in the WebKit browser engine… but it could act as a “supercookie” identifier for your browsing

08/19/2021

The company said that stolen files included the personal information of 7.8 million current customers and 40 million people who had applied for credit.