For years U.S. telephone carriers have said that they can’t stop spam callers. Truth is that they make a lot of money from either sending or receiving these calls, so they had zero incentive to figure out a way to stop it. The problem would decrease a lot if you could believe the information that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Very few of my readers run electric utilities – those are the ones that these regulations apply to directly. Then there are folks who are suppliers to utilities. And suppliers to those suppliers. The new regs require that utilities have a decent vendor cyber risk management program. That increases the pool of interested parties a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hacker Sells 538 Million Weibo Accounts Karma is a B**tch. With all of the Chinese hacking efforts, someone is hacking back. Is it us? Not clear. In any case, the data includes information like real names, site names, location, etc. and 172 million of the 538 million records include users’ phone numbers, but not passwords. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Your home Internet connection router or modem is the front line of defense against Internet intruders. Think of it as soldiers “manning the wall”, armed to the teeth, ready to repel intruders. At least, hopefully repelling intruders. But what if, instead of that scenario, your guards had turned into Benedict Arnold and were working for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more of our computing world lives inside a browser, the risk goes up. As we move to Work From Home, the risk goes up again because we no longer have corporate infrastructure to chop off the top few layers of attacks. Also many of us have kids that either share our computer or share […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Fintech is a term, that refers, loosely, to all of those companies that want to “help” you manage your financial data in the cloud and are not banks. Examples are Mint, Chime, Credit Karma, Coinbase, Kabbage and hundreds of others. Fintech can also include service providers to banks. Here is the problem. Fintechs are not […]
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