You would think after all the stories about data breaches that companies would not be asking you for your personal information via email. As long as people will do it, companies will ask. After all, it is easy and when easy fights with secure, easy almost always wins. In the source article for this post […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While everyone has heard about the DNC and DNCC hacks and the hack of the Hillary Clinton campaign emails, there was another recent email hack – at Salesforce.com . The attack was not to obtain credit cards, nor was it to steal customer lists or the sales forecast. This time the hacker wanted to know […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Maybe a little good will come from the day the Internet died last week. And maybe, also, a little bad. To very briefly recap, attackers using the now free and open source malware Marai attacked Dyn’s servers. Dyn provides DNS services to the likes of Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other companies. The attack against […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the big data vs. insurance rates battle is in its infancy, that does not mean that insurers don’t have plans. They do. Some are already using data from consumers to affect rates. Some insurers say that the data that consumers give them could lower rates and SOME insurers say that the data won’t be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, not exactly, but close. And it was not due to pictures of Kim Kardashian. Here is what happened. When you type in the name of a website to visit, say Facebook.com, the Internet needs to translate that name into an address. That address might look like 157.240.2.35 . The software that translates those names […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably remember Edward Snowden (just kidding!). Snowden was a Booz, Allen, Hamilton employee, on contract to the NSA. Well now there is another Snowden at Booz. Booz has annual revenue in excess of $5 billion and has contracts all over the federal government. Earlier this month, the feds arrested Harold Thomas Martin […]
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