Methodist Hospital in Henderson Kentucky. Population 28,000. Methodist made the news this week as the most recent health care institution to fall to a ransomware attack. According to Brian Krebs, the hospital had a scrolling red alert banner on their web site (see below, image from Brian’s web site) saying that they were running on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Atlantic had an interesting article on self driving cars and the data they will generate. While there was nothing new there, the piece certainly does point out the rhinoceros head in the corner. The car will, obviously, know that you leave for work at 7AM every morning and the address of where you work. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Everyone knows that the regulators have been going after businesses that don’t protect consumer information. Some people say they are to overreaching. Others say that they are not doing enough. Either way, the reality is that you have to deal with them. So who are they and who do they go after? Read on. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL POST. But the story does have, I think, an extremely important message to all corporate I.T. and security people. Here is the Clinton story. Judicial Watch, the conservative PAC that has been driving the Clinton email investigation got some documents under a Freedom of Information Act request that are enlightening. Apparently, Clinton […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New York City, like a number of other cities, is trying to provide its citizens with free Internet access. Their solution is to convert pay phones into WiFi hot spots. New York plans to do this with about 7,500 pay phones across the five boroughs. Here is the problem, at least as it applies to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Those of us in the computer security world have been telling businesses not to give users admin rights in Windows and now we have some very strong evidence to support that claim. Avecto, a company that makes security software, analyzes Microsoft’s patches each year and here is what they came up with for 2015: Of […]
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