For those companies who ask why they should invest in reducing cyber risk when they have cyber breach insurance – here is why. As a result of recent breaches, cyber insurance premiums for those companies whom insurance companies deem to be in high risk industries saw their premiums go up, on average, 32%. In addition, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T released it’s first public cybersecurity incident analysis report last week. As a network security services provider, they get to see the attacks in real time. One service that AT&T offers is to mitigate security threats in the network before they ever reach you. They also offer cyber security consulting services. AT&T’s competitor Verizon also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This afternoon, Google Apps went down for a few hours. Judging by the activity on the Twitterverse, you would have thought the world had ended. You can check the outage yourself by going to Google’s AppsStatus page on the web (google.com/appsstatus). It appears that Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and other parts of the Google Apps […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You probably are well aware, at least if you are tuned in to the Android world, of the family of bugs called Stagefright. Well now there is Stagefright 2.0 and this will be an opportunity for Google and the carriers to prove to us whether they can deal with ongoing security patches or not – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former NSA director Michael Hayden says that he would not support [FBI] Director [James] Comey’s demands for access, according to a story by Motherboard. This goes against the “wishes” of the current FBi director and head of the NSA. It is clear to me that if everything is transmitted unencrypted, with weak encryption or with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As many people expected, the European Court Of Justice, the highest court controlling European Union law, ruled in favor of Max Schrems and said that the Safe Habor Agreement, negotiated between the United States and the European Union in the mid 1990s is invalid and does not provide EU citizens with the protections mandated by […]
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