The short answer to this is yes. Why? Because no one is managing your employees’ home networks. We have seen networks where the firewall has not been patched for years. We have also seen home networks with no firewalls at all. Doesn’t your ISP provide you with a firewall? The answer is that they may. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is a bit of an over statement, but basically true. You may remember the movie Catch Me If You Can where the star, Frank Abagnale played by actor Leonardo DiCaprio, led police on a chase that covered the globe and went on for years. Abagnale later became a police consultant in exchange for a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Just a few years ago all we worried about was hackers breaking into our servers in the computer room in the office. We expanded that footprint to include servers located in a data center space that we rented (also called a colo). Those were still servers that we owned. And patched – hopefully. Then we […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sam Bankman-Fried demonstrated what happens when you combine unfathomable amounts of money and no regulation. It isn’t pretty. Binance moves $12 billion a day and has no physical office. What could possibly go wrong? Since the SEC was asleep at the wheel when FTX collapsed, leaving a lot of customers high and dry – since […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Dutch Data Protection Authorities Looking Into Alleged Tesla Data Breach Germany’s Handelsblatt reported on Thursday that Tesla (TSLA.O) had allegedly failed to adequately protect data belonging to customers, employees and business partners, citing 100 gigabytes of confidential data leaked by a whistleblower. The Dutch DPA is looking into the situation. Among the data is Elon’s Social plus […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When I say “help”, I mean that only in the kindest of terms, such as placing the company under a 20 year monitoring program, among other assistance. In this case, a company called Easy Healthcare has a free ovulation tracking app. As most of you well know, if it is free, you are the product. […]
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