No, I am not kidding. Currently, your Social Security Number is effectively a national identifier. Except when it is not allowed to be used. In many healthcare situations, they use first and last name plus birth date. Apparently, however, that is more than a bit error prone. This has led to treatment errors and medication […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I hate to keep beating on this drum, but the message is important and the news keeps getting worse. Yesterday I wrote about yet another managed service provider that was hit by a ransomware attack and a number of their clients had their data encrypted. Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Cloud […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of weeks ago it was a Managed Service Provider in Denver. A few weeks before that, it was one in Wisconsin. This week it is Irvine, CA based Synoptek with more than 1,100 customers including state and local governments, financial services and healthcare. Their web site says that they did more than $100 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russia Claims to Have Successfully Disconnected from the Internet Russia has been planning to install an Internet kill switch for a couple of years now. Of course, we have no clue what that means. Likely, it means that they have their own DNS servers so that they do not have to resolve web site addresses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]California’s new privacy law, CA AB 375 or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) along with it’s attendant modifications and rules goes into effect next week. As companies scurry around to meet the January 1, 2020 deadline, here is some information on what CCPA means to the average resident of California and elsewhere. While CCPA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]To call this big brother is watching would be polite. Universities are using apps on students phones and either Bluetooth beacons or WiFi to track students location including class attendance and, I would guess, how much time their spend in local bars. The attendance part is to “encourage” students to attend class. Students who do […]
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