Israeli insurance company Shirbit was hit by a ransomware attack last week. The hackers demanded 50 Bitcoin within 24 hours. 50 Bitcoin is about a million dollars. When they didn’t do that, the hackers started leaking the company’s data and doubled the ransomware demand to 100 Bitcoin or about two million dollars. They said that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well sort of. China has joined the club of quantum computing capable countries and companies. Google and IBM were among the first members of that club and while we know that those two companies are evil (just kidding), we can assume that China has far more evil intentions in mind. Researchers from the University of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]France Says it is Going Ahead with Digital Tax France has been complaining that U.S. companies (mostly) have not been paying their fair share of French taxes since they are not selling widgets that delivered in France, so they came up with this digital tax, a 3% tax on digital services delivered in France. They […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Amazon added a new feature, very quietly (I wonder why – not) last year to some Ring products and some Echo products. Amazon Sidewalk takes some of your Internet bandwidth (a small amount) and lets your Ring/Echo enabled neighbors use it in case their Internet goes down (and vice versa). What could possibly go wrong. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First the wise guy answers: Too Long and It Depends. Unfortunately, both are true. For a lot of companies, 30 to 60 days seems to be the average. Company size doesn’t seem to be a factor. We recently worked with a smallish company (less than 150 people) and it was 30 days before they were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The California Privacy Rights Act, CPRA, AKA Prop 24, was approved by voters on November 3rd. This is a continuing story on its potential impact. Some simple answers first: When does it go into effect: January 1, 2023. Who has to comply: That is still murky. There was a $25 million revenue minimum in CCPA […]
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