Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The stats say that 75% of all bits on the Internet are for video and that is a number that is up from 63% two years ago. Cisco says that Internet traffic will reach 396 exabytes a month by 2022. That is 396,000,000,000,000,000,000 . Which is a big number. While regular video for, say, Netflix, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stefano Gabbana is known for very edgy ads and posts on social media. Some people say over the edge – way over the edge. The brand ran a series of commercials of Chinese people eating pizza and other Italian foods with chopsticks on the eve of a star-studded fashion show in Hong Kong. I suspect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law firms maintain large quantities of their client’s most sensitive information – lawsuits, mergers and other high profile situations make law firms a high visibility target. So what is contained in what is known as the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility Formal Opinion 483? Here are the details. Model Rule 1.1 (competence), which […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Japan’s Cybersecurity Minister has Never Used a Computer Yoshitaka Sakurada, the deputy chief of Japan’s cybersecurity strategy office and the minister in charge of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo says that he doesn’t use computers – basically, he has secretaries and employees to do that. He also acted confused about whether Japan’s nuke plants […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you believe this week’s report from Juniper Research, online payment fraud is expected more than double in the next five years going from a mere $22 billion in losses this year to $48 billion in losses by 2023. The industry recovers that money by raising prices. This cost is about $150 for every man, […]
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