GDPR Gone Crazy I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat! According to the European Commission, Europe’s data protection regulators received more than 95,000 complaints about possible data breaches in the first 8 months of GDPR. At the same time businesses reported over 41,000 breaches. But regulators only opened 255 investigations. Many of the complaints […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A recent study estimates that a coordinated global cyber attack (think Wannacry, but not geographically bounded) could cause economic damages of between $85 billion and $193 billion. The investigation was conducted by Lloyds of London and Aon Insurance as a “stress test” of the industry. Claims would likely include everything from business interruption to incident […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Supply chain risk is a hot button right now and getting hotter. It has always been an issue – it was the source of the Target breach, the Home Depot Breach, Panama Papers and thousands of others that you never heard about. According to a Ponemon study, 56% of organizations admit that they had a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Imagine watching TV one day and hearing an alert that says that ballistic missiles were headed from North Korea to Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio. The alert said that people had three hours to evacuate. Ignore for the moment the fact that Russian TOPOL ballistic missiles can travel at up to 15,000 MPH, so it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of the most popular business email compromise scams (BEC) target accounting and finance or human resources. The scam usually works something like this. Someone in the target department – often not too high up in the food chain – gets a email pretending to be from an executive like the CEO or CFO. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Worried about the NSA capturing all that metadata about you? That is the stuff about you that the government says it can collect without a warrant (and courtesy of the Patriot Act) because you send it unencrypted over the Internet and so you have no expectation of privacy. A big part of the data (besides […]
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