On March 24th, Tennessee Gov. Bill Hallam signed S.B. 2005 into law, breaking new ground in privacy law. The law takes effect on July 1. While there are a couple of interesting features of this amendment to the existing Tennessee privacy law, the biggest change is that, effective, July 1, companies that have a breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over the weekend the New York Times ran a piece on the report created by the French anti terrorism police on the Paris attacks. The report indicates that there is no evidence of use of encrypted email, devices or messaging solutions. In fact, they used phones that they activated just before the attack (burner phones) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If last year was the year of attacks on health insurance companies, this year seems to be the year of attacks on hospitals. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Henderson Kentucky Methodist Hospital. Desert Valley and Chino Valley hospitals in Southern California. Now it is Medstar Health. Medstar runs 10 hospitals and 250 outpatient clinics and has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Juniper Research says that one in three home routers will be PUBLIC WiFi hotspots in the US and Europe by 2017. ISPs such as Comcast and Cablevision have already started this process. The ISPs say that the public use of your router won’t affect your speeds, but people are somewhat dubious. The bigger issue is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have never been much of a fan of using your fingerprint or eyeball print as a way of gaining access to something – whether it be your phone or a data center. There are a number of reasons why, but now we can add a new one to it. The Chaos Computer Club demonstrated […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Su Bin, a Chinese national, pleaded guilty this week to hacking into Boeing and other companies in an effort to steal plans related to Boeing fighter jets and military transport planes. While there were other co-conspirators, Su Bin appears to be the only one indicted. The DOJ did say that the data was sent to […]
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