Few Election Offices Use .Gov Domain Years ago, .gov domains cost $400. In a case of penny wise, pound foolish, something like three quarters of all election officers figured that saving $400 versus a non-spoofable domain name was a smart trade off. And we wonder why the hackers are winning. Credit: The Washington Post LinkedIn […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Many people are familiar with Illinois’ biometric privacy law called BIPA, The Biometric Information Privacy Act. BIPA says that companies can’t use your biometric data without your permission. BIPA only applies to IIllinois residents, but it is still having an impact. Like California’s privacy law, BIPA allows you and me (if we live in Illinois) […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tracking pixels are those tiny, invisible beacons that companies like Google and Facebook use to capture information about what you are doing, send it back to the mother ship, aggregate it with other data and then use it, mostly, for advertising purposes. Of course it can be used for many other purposes as well. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA issued a Binding Operational Directive. BODs only are “binding” on federal executive branch agencies, but this is one time where if it is good for the feds, it is good for you. The directive tells agencies to keep track of assets and vulnerabilities. They have six months to comply. Specifically, they want agencies to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Spanish public entity Consorci Sanitari Integral (CSI) is a Barcelona-based hospital system that treats more than a million patients a year and has more than 3,000 physicians and staff. They detected a ransomware attack last Friday. Here is the remarkable news – they were able to recover in three days. They say this is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a case of technology getting ahead of the law. There are existing federal laws that cover credit card fraud, debit card fraud and check fraud. These are all different laws with slightly different rules, but, for the most part, the law says that if you report the fraud quickly enough (the time varies […]
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