GoDaddy has an interesting feature. If a hacker creates a FREE GoDaddy account they can and have created a whole bushel of mischief. If you have a free account, you can use GoDaddy’s managed DNS service for free for a limited amount of time. Only problem is that GoDaddy didn’t validate that you owned the domain […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Houston lawyer is suing Apple alleging that Apple’s Facetime bug (still not fixed) that allowed people to eavesdrop even if you do not answer the call, allowed a private deposition to be recorded. If you are among the geek crowd you probably know that the most paranoid person around, Edward Snowden, required reporters to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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