As is often the case when the feds do something, there is probably at least one thing that is good in this notice of proposed rulemaking and probably others that are less good. The HIPAA privacy rule is designed to protect the privacy of patient data, but other than stopping providers from selling your health […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So you have been hacked and the hackers stole your customers’ data. You try to do the right thing and notify them. By email. Because that might be the only address you have for them. But many times that email never makes to your customer. Blocked by the customer’s email service provider or spam filter. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As millions upon millions of IoT and Industrial IoT devices get deployed every month, we seem to have forgotten what we learned the hard way about our computers: if we don’t patch them, the hackers will invade. #1: A set of bugs called Urgent/11 affected a network module that has been around since the 90s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have been ranting about Software Bills of Material or SBoM for a while. This week I have two examples of why this is important – even critical. The first story is about a TCP/IP network stack and the vulnerability is called Amnesia:33. It impacts four open source libraries – uIP, FNET, picoTCP and Nut/Net. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]First the wise guy answers: Too Long and It Depends. Unfortunately, both are true. For a lot of companies, 30 to 60 days seems to be the average. Company size doesn’t seem to be a factor. We recently worked with a smallish company (less than 150 people) and it was 30 days before they were […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When Covid happened 9 months ago no one really knew what to expect. I am not sure that anyone still knows what to expect, but it looks like that Work From Home (WFH) is here to stay. Many companies have decided that it has not negatively impacted productivity and some even say that productivity is […]
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