In the last weeks of the year, Congress did what Congress does and took a controversial bill, CISA, which experts say expands government spying on citizens in the name of protecting them, and stuck it inside a must pass bill – in this case the omnibus spending bill – at the last minute. Since Congress […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Senate, on Tuesday, passed their version of CISA, the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act. The House passed their own version of it months ago. The stated purpose of the act is to allow private companies to share “threat” information with the government and have immunity from being sued by their users for doing this. Because […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the world of a connected home (or any other building), when you sell it or buy it, you need to consider the security and privacy implications. Does the former owner still have access to the security cameras? HVAC? Alarm system? Are the smart devices not so smart anymore? Have they EVER been patched? Are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Businesses have long complained about complying with 46 different cybersecurity/privacy laws (plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands) and the lack of a national privacy law. Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico and South Dakota are the only states without such laws. The states have fired back saying that a national […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After Radio Shack filed for bankruptcy, it was announced that Radio Shack was going to sell their customer information – over 100 million customers. Quickly, several camps came to the bankruptcy court to argue against the sale. First in line was AT&T (see article) and other carriers. AT&T claimed that, based on their agreement with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you depend on Google search engine position for your business, the world changed last week. As of April 21st, 2015, Google is using mobile friendliness as a criteria in search engine rankings. This affects mobile search (not your desktop) in all languages, world wide. Google has been saying that mobile friendliness is […]
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