We’re From the Government and WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU! Well, not really. We don’t have to worry about the gov being hacked. They just give our information away. At least in this case there is no hard evidence that the data was misused. FEMA hired a contractor to help it find temporary housing for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If yesterday’s post (on Asus) and many of my posts in the past are any indication, supply chain risk is a huge problem and not very well handled at many companies. Part of the reason why is all of the misconceptions we have. Here are a few and why they are misconceptions: The vendor is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting combination of countries. Multi-billion dollar Taiwan based computer make Asus makes a wide range of computers sold worldwide. Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky, whom the White House says is a threat to national security and should be banned (which I basically think is mostly true), identified that hackers attacked Asus’s software update […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After you are done gasping — it is not a far fetched scenario, at least for vacation rentals. There have been many stories of AirBnB rentals having surveillance cameras – even though their agreement requires that they be disclosed if present. When it comes to hotels, it is much more likely that those cameras were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on Apple is launching a major ad campaign to run during March Madness with the tagline “If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on. Privacy. That’s iPhone“. Since Apple’s business model is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seems like Facebook can’t catch a break. Whether it is Cambridge Analytica or one of the many other scandals plaguing the company, it seems like the only news coverage they get is bad coverage. This time it is information that Facebook logged users’ passwords in plain text for anyone to read, stored those logs on […]
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