From a sales and branding perspective, the last thing that smart home device manufacturers (think Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple HomePod and a raft of other) want you to worry about is whether the Feds are snarfing up your data. We do know of a few highly publicized cases like asking for smart water heater […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Parental controls are generally a good thing. Except when it blocks the wrong sites and lets the bad sites through. So what is Apple doing in this case? Sites that are blocked: Scarleteen and O.school, which are sex education sites and Teen Vogue. Sites that are OK: The Daily Stormer, a neo-nazi site that publishes […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Austria Issues First GDPR Fine; Has 115 Fine Proceeding In Q Austria has issued its first GDPR fine. 4,800 Euros for having a security camera that covers the sidewalk (a no-no) without warning people that they are under surveillance. Welcome to GDPR. In the first 100 days of GDPR, they have 115 fine proceedings in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have probably heard about Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks where scammers pose as company executives and ask the accounting department to wire money to them. The FBI says this is highly effective and big business. To the tune of $5 billion in losses since 2013. In fact the SEC discovered that 9 publicly traded […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Normally I would send this out as a client alert, but given the enormity of this, I think it needs wider distribution. PHP is the “P” in the LAMP web server stack as in Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP. PHP is the scripting language turned programming language that many web servers run on. January 1, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seema Verma, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services wants fax machines out of doctor’s offices by 2020. She wants them out of doctor’s offices because they are not cool. She wants to replace them with super-non-secure apps for your phone that are way […]
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