August 13th, a Day That Will Live in Confusion August 13th is the day that Part B of Section 889 of the 2019 National Defense Authorization Act went into effect. It bans the use of equipment and services tied to certain Chinese companies that have been deemed security threats by the United States. Companies that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unlike Europe, the United States does not have a uniform national privacy law. Instead we have a patchwork of state laws and federal regulations that apply to one industry or another. One of those regulations is Gramm-Leach-Bliley or GLBA. GLBA was signed into law in 1999 and written over the years prior to that. It […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In just the last few months, companies as diverse as Travelex and Canon have been hacked. Universities like UCSF have paid millions to criminals. In just one news feed today, I see the following: AI firm Cense exposed 2.5 million records containing sensitive and confidential medical records that were supposed to be loaded into a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is pretty interesting what you find when you rummage around your computer. Most computers these days have cameras and microphones. Do you know which applications can access your camera? What about your microphone? I didn’t. In fact, I didn’t even know where to look to find the answer to that question. When I looked, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China and Russia Continue to Interfere with the Elections According the the White House, China has been targeting the US election infrastructure ahead of the election and Russia has been trying to undercut Democratic candidate Joe Biden, much like their did with Clinton in 2016. Could it be that Russia thinks that the Republican Administrations […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Those of you who have kids or think you still are a kid probably remember this song from Hoodwinked. Here in Colorado, we are in the middle of fire season. As of the writing of this post, the Pine Gulch fire is rapidly approaching 70,000 acres burned. The nearest a wildfire has come to my […]
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