Why do people usually use a VPN connection over the Internet? Usually it is for added security and privacy. What if a VPN offered security, but even less privacy than without it – would you use it? Well some people are and probably do not even know it. In 2013 Facebook bought an Israeli company, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While yet another local government being shut down by a ransomware attack is old news these days, it still can point to a few valuable things. This time it is Davidson County, NC, home of Greensboro. At 2:00 in the morning the county’s CIO was woken up – there was something strange going on with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On February 15, 2018 a milestone event occurred in New York. For financial institutions licensed in New York (there are about 3,000 of them), The Chairman of the Board, CEO or some other similar executive had to personally sign a document and submit it to the State of New York. The document says that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The heads of the intelligence community – NSA, CIA, FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency, appearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Chinese smartphones posed a threat to national security. Exactly why they singled out those two Chinese phones, compared to the iPhone, which is likely made in the same factory, is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am always skeptical about these lawsuits. One issue is usually “standing”, but in this case, I don’t think this will be an issue. Often, if the party being sued thinks they are going to lose, they tend to settle, quietly, with no precedent from a court decision. In this case, I predict this one […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The head of the UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC), Ciaran Martin, said that a major cyber-attack on the UK is a matter of when, not if. Martin said that the UK had been lucky to avoid a so-called category one (C1) attack. Luck? That’s comforting. A C1 attack is defined as an attack […]
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