Acidic Security

Starting from mid September this year there has been entry of fake phones on the market in east and Central Africa. According  to research  I tentatively conducted on the boarders of DRC, Rwanda, Tanzania  and one report finding from a friend  in Burundi, a group of phones with the  "TYPE ALLOCATION CODE" of 35551517.....All the phone with  this TAC are fake. I have been wondering  if BABT(British approval board for telecommunications)  whose identifying number 35 is mostly  used by phones made in China and Middle Eas, is aware of such fake phones using their identification  number! Chinese companies have gone an extra mile in the production of fake electronic  products. It is worth here to note that, I do not mean that all products from China are fake!  The issue of these fake phones on African markets are as result of a number of pronounced factors! ! One is corruption, most quality controlling organizations in Africa connive with some of the exporting companies to allow

Altering Intel’s CPU voltages and frequency directly in the operating system is a feature that many users appreciate as it allows them to use all those software-based utilities that aid in overclocking. Now, this feature may not be as secure as previously anticipated. Recently a team of cybersecurity experts proved that this particular feature can be exploited by threat actors that can cause substantial damage by aiming to hijack Intel SGX. For those who don’t know, Intel SGX is an extremely critical and hardware-isolated space on new models of Intel CPUs responsible for encrypting sensitive data for protecting it from being stolen in case the system gets compromised. The research team comprised of six European members from the University of Birmingham, KU Leuven, and the Graz University of Technology. The attack technique is dubbed Plundervolt and classified as CVE-2019-11157 . According to the team’s findings, the attack exploits the modern processor’s frequency and voltage adj

3 of the BitClub Network mining pool have been arrested on fraud charges for operating a Ponzi scheme that has taken a total of $722 Million USD ($1,059,754,488 AUD) from its investors. In an indictment from the New Jersey district court (), 5 names in total appear on the document, however 2 of the names have been redacted. The 3 persons in question that are named on the document are Matthew Brent Goettsche, Jobadiah Sinclair Weeks and Joseph Frank Abel. All 3 named persons have been charged with conspiracy to offer and sell unregistered securities, with only Goettsche and Weeks being charged with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. The 2 redacted persons named on the document are still at large so their names with remain under seal until they have been arrested. Between April 2014 and December 2019, the scammers released false statistics of their hash rates and returns to convince people to buy shares and invest in their BitClub Network mining pool, and offered bonuses for finding mo