It is unlikely that, by now, you have not heard about the Panama Papers. On Sunday, over a hundred news outlets, working together, released stories based on the internal documents of a Panama and Las Vegas based law firm. Working from 2.73 terabytes of data stolen from that law firm representing almost 5 million emails, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This article was updated at 1443 on 02 April 2016. In the largest study of its kind, commissioned by the NASDAQ, 90% of corporate executives surveyed said that they cannot read a cybersecurity report and are not prepared to handle a major attack. More distressing is that 40% of executives don’t feel responsible for the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On March 24th, Tennessee Gov. Bill Hallam signed S.B. 2005 into law, breaking new ground in privacy law. The law takes effect on July 1. While there are a couple of interesting features of this amendment to the existing Tennessee privacy law, the biggest change is that, effective, July 1, companies that have a breach […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Over the weekend the New York Times ran a piece on the report created by the French anti terrorism police on the Paris attacks. The report indicates that there is no evidence of use of encrypted email, devices or messaging solutions. In fact, they used phones that they activated just before the attack (burner phones) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If last year was the year of attacks on health insurance companies, this year seems to be the year of attacks on hospitals. Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Henderson Kentucky Methodist Hospital. Desert Valley and Chino Valley hospitals in Southern California. Now it is Medstar Health. Medstar runs 10 hospitals and 250 outpatient clinics and has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Juniper Research says that one in three home routers will be PUBLIC WiFi hotspots in the US and Europe by 2017. ISPs such as Comcast and Cablevision have already started this process. The ISPs say that the public use of your router won’t affect your speeds, but people are somewhat dubious. The bigger issue is […]
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