The United States has historically had a “challenging” supply chain. It has, for at least decades, depended on supplies from counties that are either not stable or not friendly or neither. While we have worked to try to REDUCE that dependency, we are very far from eliminating it. Yesterday the President ratcheted up the curbs […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Inquiring minds want to know, as the expression goes. The real question is how quickly can you detect and respond to the exploitation of exposed keys? I bet it is a lot longer than it takes the hackers to find them. Here is what the researchers did. They did a “candy drop” – dropped keys […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The simplest form of PCI compliance is a self assessment and most companies qualify. The simplest form of a self assessment is a SAQ-A or -A-EP. This assessment form is for merchants that do not collect or store payment card information and outsource the payment process pretty much completely. If you capture the card info […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I bet this shows up as a surprise to exactly no one. There are at least 600 undersea fiber lines that connect the world. While these two going away at roughly the same time is annoying, the Internet is quite resilient. However, depending on WHICH fiber lines are cut, the problems can be more severe. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One downside of these mega mergers is that things that have nothing to do with each other are now totally related to each other. Two recent cases. Jeffrey Piccolo filed a lawsuit after his wife, Karen, died at a Disney owned restaurant in Florida. She had a fatal reaction to the food after being assured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Russian Court Fines Google 2 Undecillion Rubles for Blocking YouTube Accounts This is a case of YouTube blocking several Russian TV stations’ YouTube accounts. They are being fined by Russia’s anti-monopoly service from failing to restore the accounts. Google was fined, back in 2020, 100 thousand rubles a day with the fine doubling every week […]
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