Why PREVENTING Ransomware is the Only Option Patients of Methodist McKinney Hospital and two of its surgery centers are preparing for their data to be sold on the dark web. Healthcare is a prime target for hackers for a number of reasons. The hospital decided not to pay the ransom for 360 gigabytes of stolen […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The California legislature just passed the Age-Appropriate Design Code Act. Conceptually, the goal is to try to make sure that web sites kids visit are appropriate for kids. The problem is, how do you know who is a kid? Once Governor Newsom signs the bill, the code will require sites and apps – BOTH – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No. Not really. Are bad 1-time passcodes a corporate liability? Yes, but bad anything is a liability. In the wake of the Twilio breach, my buddy Brian Krebs posted an item titled “How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability”. In one sense, he is right because most companies chose the easiest one 1-time passcode to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Schools are legitimately trying to figure out ways to keep students safe from gun and other violence. Unfortunately, there are no simple ways to do this. Some schools are trying to use AI to solve the problem, but the reality that schools are experiencing using this technology is, apparently, quite different from what is represented […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mozilla Says 18 of 25 Pregnancy Apps: Privacy Not Included Out of the 25 “reproductive health” apps and wearable devices, 18 received a “privacy not included” rating. That means that they have a problem protecting their user’s privacy. In today’s world that data could be used by private bounty hunters in states that offer that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The hackers that breached outsource customer communications vendor Twilio earlier this month didn’t just compromise encrypted communications app vendor Signal. In fact, they compromised more than 130 companies and 10,000 employees. Why? because Twilio is a vendor to all of these companies and these companies trusted Twilio. And, apparently, Twilio’s security practices were not good […]
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