O P I N I O N People sometimes ask why IT can’t fix the cybersecurity problem. The reason is pretty simple. Cybersecurity is not an IT problem. IT can make systems very secure. Only problem is that employees won’t be able to get their job done. No mobile. No WiFi. No personally owned computers. […]
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As we continue to hear in the news about Amazon storage bucket breaches, Amazon continues to try and stem the reputational damage. I am not aware of any of those data spills being caused by bugs in Amazon software, but the reputation damage is still real. Over the past year or so Amazon has made […]
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DEA and ICE buying Surveillance Cameras Hidden in Streetlights I am not particularly surprised and it certainly is not illegal in any way, but apparently DEA and ICE have purchased $50,000 of security cameras that record video and sound, hidden in streetlights. If $50,000 is what they spent, it would cover a small number of […]
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One of my favorite quotes from a past life: There is never time to do it right. But there is always time to do it again. IoT is like that. As businesses rush at breakneck speed to do something cool with IoT, they are repeating past mistakes and not considering security. Given that the “S”in […]
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This could be a very interesting lawsuit and we will watch it and see where it goes. In 2017 Adobe released Premiere Pro Creative Cloud 2017 version 11.1.0 , Apparently, like a lot of software, this product was not bug free. In fact, a feature called clean cache not only cleaned the cache of Premiere […]
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As a reminder, Cathay Pacific Airlines recently admitted it was hacked and lost data on over 9 million passengers. Information taken includes names, addresses, passport information, birth dates and other information They took a lot of heat for waiting 6 months to tell anyone about it (remember that GDPR requires you to tell the authorities […]
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