One category credit fraud is when a hacker opens up new credit accounts in your name, runs up the bill and leaves you to deal with the mess. While in the long run, if you are persistent, the law favors the consumer, it can be a long slog to get it taken care of. That […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hackers are always in a cat-and-mouse game with the good guys (and gals) as the hackers try to do us in and the good guys try to swat them away. Microsoft has an add-on to Office 365 called Advanced Threat Protection or ATP. One of the things that ATP does is make links inside emails […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have trained users to look for a padlock next to a website’s address like it means that you are safe. Unfortunately, as we all know, it hasn’t quite worked out very well. At least not for us. Expecting the average user to understand what the padlock means – and doesn’t mean – is unreasonable. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.K.’s High Court Gives the U.K. Gov 6 Months to Fix Law Privacy in the U.K. is a bit of wishful thinking. Besides having the most public surveillance cameras in the world (Wikipedia says there is one camera for every 14 people in the country), the government has attempted to kill privacy in other ways. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a survey conducted by storage software vendor Veritas, 2 in 5 or 40% of what the EU calls “data subjects” (and what the rest of us call people) plan to request businesses to tell them what data they have within the first six months after the GDPR goes into effect later this month. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the wake of all of the breaches that we read about on an almost daily basis, large companies have begun to take the cybersecurity threat seriously. While they are far from perfect, far from secure, they are way more secure than they were even 5 years ago. What that means is that big businesses […]
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