Why? Because they are soft targets with underfunded and understaffed cybersecurity programs, if they have cybersecurity programs at all and many of them are vendors to Fortune 1000 companies, creating an easy backdoor in. Small and medium sized businesses (SMBs) are just trying to stay afloat in the chaos and don’t understand that they are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Work from Home Security Considerations As your employees use their company issued laptop at home or at Starbucks, consider whether your security suite is still protecting them. For example, in the office they are behind your firewall (hopefully) and that adds a layer of protection that does not exist when they are working from home. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The EU has confirmed that it issues burner phones to top officials travelling to the United States but says it wasn’t caused by the new regime. It follows the Financial Times reporting of increased risk of surveillance when travelling to the US amid reports of US treatment of individuals transiting its borders. Customs’ opinion is that they […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you not familiar with the False Claims Act or FCA, it is a Civil War Era law that the government uses to recover billions of dollars every year from contractors who lie to Uncle about something. In our case, it is going to be lying about their cybersecurity practices. In 2021 the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In response to a lawsuit filed by authors and being tried as a class action, Meta is making some interesting claims. The authors claim that Meta use massive quantities of copyrighted material to train its large language model (LLM). The plaintiffs unveiled evidence that Meta used BitTorrent to download at least 81.7 terabytes of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is an actual event, not a drill. SDIS 67 / Laurent Schoenferber SDIX 67 / Laurent Schoenferber The date is March 10,2021. The time is 12:40 AM. The location is an OVH data center on the west bank of the Rhine, where France borders Germany. The data center, a small one by today’s standards, […]
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