This afternoon, Google Apps went down for a few hours. Judging by the activity on the Twitterverse, you would have thought the world had ended. You can check the outage yourself by going to Google’s AppsStatus page on the web (google.com/appsstatus). It appears that Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and other parts of the Google Apps […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You probably are well aware, at least if you are tuned in to the Android world, of the family of bugs called Stagefright. Well now there is Stagefright 2.0 and this will be an opportunity for Google and the carriers to prove to us whether they can deal with ongoing security patches or not – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former NSA director Michael Hayden says that he would not support [FBI] Director [James] Comey’s demands for access, according to a story by Motherboard. This goes against the “wishes” of the current FBi director and head of the NSA. It is clear to me that if everything is transmitted unencrypted, with weak encryption or with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As many people expected, the European Court Of Justice, the highest court controlling European Union law, ruled in favor of Max Schrems and said that the Safe Habor Agreement, negotiated between the United States and the European Union in the mid 1990s is invalid and does not provide EU citizens with the protections mandated by […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]American Banker is reporting that banks are not terribly happy with their customer’s adoption (or not) of Apple Pay. This probably has less to do with anything that Apple did or did not do, but rather with the fact that people don’t deal with change very well. While 84% of the banks reported they were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]American Banker ran a piece this morning digesting the Experian breach announced last week. It said it was good that the breach only compromised 15 million T-Mobile customers instead of the hundreds of millions of customers that probably live in the Experian Decision Analytics service platform and that it only took them two weeks to […]
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