First a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one on the Internet – at least most of the time. The Uber Waymo trade secret theft trial is being delayed once again. Why? Because the Department of Justice showed the Judge a 37 page letter from the lawyer of a former […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What would happen to your business if your credit card processor shut down? If you do online bill pay, what would happen if it shut down? Millions of people and businesses got to figure that one out this month when Paypal’s TIO Networks unit suddenly shut down. TIO does payment processing, both for merchants and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have long complained about ads on web sites delivering malicious content in addition to ads. In fact, I have even advocated blocking ads because of it, but since most web sites exist because of the revenue generated from those ads, the ad content is only getting more invasive. There have been many incidents of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been a strong advocate for two factor authentication and still am, but I ran across a situation yesterday that made me realize that there is something that you need to consider when you implement two factor. The situation that I encountered was a user that was using text messages for two factor authentication […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There are those in the open source software fan world that suggest that open source (and typically free) software is best because since the source code is available, people can look for bugs and fix them, resulting is bug free software. The reality is not quite so simple. While this statement is technically true, it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Despite the constant news reports of cyber breaches, PwC says that business leaders are not taking this to heart, which means that your data is still at risk. Price Waterhouse Coopers surveyed 9,500 executives in 122 countries and came up with the following – 44% – almost half – say that their firms have not […]
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