When GDPR first went into effect in May 2018, people talked about horror stories of fines to the tune of 4% of a company’s total global revenue. Then reality hit and there were no fines or tiny fines. Or so it seemed. The problem with regulators is that it always takes them a while. Legitimately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Lets be real – the category of people and companies that use software applications – well, that is just about everyone, but right now this affects a slightly smaller group. Assuming other framework vendors don’t already do this or don’t do this in the future. The issue at hand is how Microsoft and Oracle are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is What Spies Do It has come out that western (read one or more of the five eyes countries) inserted malware into Yandex (Russia’s equivalent of Google) in order to steal administrative credentials. The purpose was, apparently, to read emails of interest to the western spies. We need to understand that we do it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, this is going to take a little bit of explaining so bear with me, but it is important. Everyone knows about the padlock in their browser with says that the traffic to that web site is encrypted using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) encryption, which has now been upgraded to Transport Layer Security (TLS). The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the absence of the federal government doing anything useful when it comes to cybersecurity or privacy laws, the states are left to their own ways to implement a patchwork of laws. Here is what they are doing right now. The impact rating is my own. Illinois SB 1624 – This bill requires businesses that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial version (IIot) are kind of like the wild west at the moment. People and businesses are deploying IoT and IIoT devices at an incredible rate. Estimates are that there will be tens of billions of them deployed over the next few years. But that doesn’t help the security […]
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