Police Don’t Know Who Accessed Data Posted in Error This is somewhat hard to believe while at the same time all too common. Would your company do any better. Police in Northern Ireland posted the entire country’s police roster in response to a freedom of information request – by accident. Even though they took it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to Bing Chat, there were 15.6 million cars and light trucks sold in the US in 2013, 16.5 million in 2014, 17+ million in 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019, but only 14 million in 2020 and 13 million in 2021 and 2022. But something else changed between 2013 and 2022. By 2022 almost […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zelle is one of the most recent incarnations in peer to peer payments. Peer to peer payments are ones that allow you to directly transfer money from one person’s bank account (the sender) to another’s (the receiver). Competitors to Zelle include PayPal, Venmo, Popmoney and CashApp. The difference with Zelle is that it is owned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In light of the most recent Chinese attack on Azure, several people are speaking out. Amit Yoran, chairman of security firm Tenable, former president of RSA and former Homeland Security National Cyber Security Division director, says this in a LinkedIn post: Cloud providers have long espoused the shared responsibility model. That model is irretrievably broken […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since it seems that fully remote work and hybrid work are not going away anytime soon, we need to make sure that remote workers are secure. It is not going away because the best employees will find another job rather than be forced to come into the office. Forester Research says 68% of remote workers […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Zero Trust is a buzzword these days. People say that it is a key tool in the security practitioner’s arsenal, but what is it anyway. Here is what the core elements are, according to NIST’s zero trust framework. That means those “software functions” in the cloud. Each of them. Each of them is a resource. […]
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