I hate to keep beating on this drum, but the message is important and the news keeps getting worse. Yesterday I wrote about yet another managed service provider that was hit by a ransomware attack and a number of their clients had their data encrypted. Today the Wall Street Journal is reporting that the Cloud […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of weeks ago it was a Managed Service Provider in Denver. A few weeks before that, it was one in Wisconsin. This week it is Irvine, CA based Synoptek with more than 1,100 customers including state and local governments, financial services and healthcare. Their web site says that they did more than $100 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]California’s new privacy law, CA AB 375 or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) along with it’s attendant modifications and rules goes into effect next week. As companies scurry around to meet the January 1, 2020 deadline, here is some information on what CCPA means to the average resident of California and elsewhere. While CCPA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 2019 Crowdstrike Global Security Attitude Survey said that the total number of organizations around the world paying the ransom after falling victim to a supply chain attack almost tripled from 14% to 39%. In the UK, the number of organizations that have experienced a ransomware attack and then paid the ransom doubled from 14% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Predictions are that there are going be billions of Internet of Things devices connected to the Internet over the next few years. This past week the story has been about Amazon’s Ring camera – an example of an Internet of Things device. In one case, in Tennessee, someone hacked into a family’s Ring cameras and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Given that the cellular market is pretty well saturated in the developed world and cell companies are not likely to sell a lot of $1,200 cell phones in the developing world, Verizon, AT&T and the others are working overtime to create something to separate you from more of your money. To even the game, you […]
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