When Ben Lawsky was running the New York Department Of Financial Services, he proposed new cyber security examination rules. Now that he is gone on to start his own legal consulting firm, the legacy that he started continues. This week the post-Lawsky NYDFS has released a set of proposed cyber security regulations. And, just to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Credit card breaches are old news. Well, sort of. It seems like every day there is a new one, but we have gotten used to them. If you are a slight geek, you have your bank send you a text or email every single time your card is used. The first time that it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the Paris attacks, politicians have been falling all over themselves trying to be more anti-terrorist than the other. Prior to the attacks, the odds of the CISA bill in Congress were dicey. Now the odds are pretty high, even though that bill will do almost zero in terms of preventing terrorism. One of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While cyber breaches are in the news all the time, many businesses still have not prepared for one – even if they have experienced an attack of one form or another. Nationwide Insurance did a survey of 500 small businesses and here are some of the results: 8 out of 10 small businesses do not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Pentagon has a better way to stop users from clicking on phishing email – neuter the emails. Below is an example of what the email that you send to someone in the DoD might look like before it enters the DoD email system and when the user sees it. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if Paris didn’t have enough problems, Paris’ Orly Airport had to close briefly last week because a Windows 3.1 system that sends Runway Visual Range information to pilots failed. Windows 3.1 dates back to 1992. The French air traffic control union said that Paris airports use systems running 4 operating systems, including Windows 3.1 and […]
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