When GDPR first went into effect in May 2018, people talked about horror stories of fines to the tune of 4% of a company’s total global revenue. Then reality hit and there were no fines or tiny fines. Or so it seemed. The problem with regulators is that it always takes them a while. Legitimately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is What Spies Do It has come out that western (read one or more of the five eyes countries) inserted malware into Yandex (Russia’s equivalent of Google) in order to steal administrative credentials. The purpose was, apparently, to read emails of interest to the western spies. We need to understand that we do it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the absence of the federal government doing anything useful when it comes to cybersecurity or privacy laws, the states are left to their own ways to implement a patchwork of laws. Here is what they are doing right now. The impact rating is my own. Illinois SB 1624 – This bill requires businesses that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Internet of Things (IoT) and the Industrial version (IIot) are kind of like the wild west at the moment. People and businesses are deploying IoT and IIoT devices at an incredible rate. Estimates are that there will be tens of billions of them deployed over the next few years. But that doesn’t help the security […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is a great piece on ZDNet today about a writer who’s phone number was stolen (not the phone, the number) using a SIM swap attack. In this case, the phone company was T-Mobile and all the hacker had to do is call them, given them a bit of the victim’s information (like secret stuff […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]“Think of this – one man with total control of billions of people’s stolen data. All their secrets, their lives, their futures…” So begins a fake video using technology and videos of Mark Zuckerberg saying completely different things (see here). It even has a CBS News logo on it. CBS asked Facebook to take it […]
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