Japan’s Cybersecurity Minister has Never Used a Computer Yoshitaka Sakurada, the deputy chief of Japan’s cybersecurity strategy office and the minister in charge of the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo says that he doesn’t use computers – basically, he has secretaries and employees to do that. He also acted confused about whether Japan’s nuke plants […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you believe this week’s report from Juniper Research, online payment fraud is expected more than double in the next five years going from a mere $22 billion in losses this year to $48 billion in losses by 2023. The industry recovers that money by raising prices. This cost is about $150 for every man, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]O P I N I O N People sometimes ask why IT can’t fix the cybersecurity problem. The reason is pretty simple. Cybersecurity is not an IT problem. IT can make systems very secure. Only problem is that employees won’t be able to get their job done. No mobile. No WiFi. No personally owned computers. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As we continue to hear in the news about Amazon storage bucket breaches, Amazon continues to try and stem the reputational damage. I am not aware of any of those data spills being caused by bugs in Amazon software, but the reputation damage is still real. Over the past year or so Amazon has made […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]DEA and ICE buying Surveillance Cameras Hidden in Streetlights I am not particularly surprised and it certainly is not illegal in any way, but apparently DEA and ICE have purchased $50,000 of security cameras that record video and sound, hidden in streetlights. If $50,000 is what they spent, it would cover a small number of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of my favorite quotes from a past life: There is never time to do it right. But there is always time to do it again. IoT is like that. As businesses rush at breakneck speed to do something cool with IoT, they are repeating past mistakes and not considering security. Given that the “S”in […]
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