Cyber Insurance Company Coalition Says Claims Payment Down From Last Year Cyber insurer Coalition says that it’s clients’ average claims for losses for ransomware attacks was $184,000 for the first half of this year, down 45% from the second half of last year. This, they say, is because they are doing better at negotiating ransoms. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Apple is about to announce a new feature. They are going to start scanning everyone’s iPhone for banned content. Seriously. It uses neural networks and machine learning, so I am sure it will be cool. According to respected cryptography professor Matthew Green, it is going to scan everyone’s devices for child porn (now referred to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security Company Founder Charged with Hacking Georgia Hospital An indictment unsealed this week in a Northern District of Georgia court accuses Vikas Singla, 45, with 18 separate counts of aiding and abetting a 2018 cyber attack against the Gwinnett Medical Center in Georgia. According to his LinkedIn profile, he is (or maybe now was) the COO of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If You Thought the FTC Was Toothless Before, Just Wait I always complained that the FTC’s penalties were way too meek. Now I understand why, but it has just gotten MUCH worse. 99.99% of the blame goes to Congress. Initially, the FTC could not bring lawsuits against businesses at all. All they could do was […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you were using your phone and visited a web site when a message popped up that said something like “we want to sell your data to anyone we want and you get nothing for that – do we have your permission to do that?” – what would your answer be? Well, if you are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since the beginning of Apple-time (or is it i-time?), Apple has always bundled security fixes into iOS upgrades. This means that a user could not install a security update without also upgrading the OS. In general, Apple has always forced users to upgrade their iPhones and other mobile devices. This tends to make Apple products […]
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