Australian Parliament Passes Crypto Back Door Law Overnight Politics always wins. After the Prime Minister said that the opposition party was supporting terrorism, the opposition completely folded after claiming that Parliament would implement amendments after the first of the year. Since politicians lie about 99.99% of the time, the party in power is now saying […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First it was Marriott. The breach of Marriott’s Starwood division systems exposed data on 500 million clients and triggered multiple lawsuits and investigations. That breach was four years in the making and across two different management teams – first at Starwood and then at Marriott. Undetected. This week 1-800-Flowers announced that it too was breached. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The stats say that 75% of all bits on the Internet are for video and that is a number that is up from 63% two years ago. Cisco says that Internet traffic will reach 396 exabytes a month by 2022. That is 396,000,000,000,000,000,000 . Which is a big number. While regular video for, say, Netflix, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stefano Gabbana is known for very edgy ads and posts on social media. Some people say over the edge – way over the edge. The brand ran a series of commercials of Chinese people eating pizza and other Italian foods with chopsticks on the eve of a star-studded fashion show in Hong Kong. I suspect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Law firms maintain large quantities of their client’s most sensitive information – lawsuits, mergers and other high profile situations make law firms a high visibility target. So what is contained in what is known as the Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility Formal Opinion 483? Here are the details. Model Rule 1.1 (competence), which […]
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