Let’s start with the bottom line: dynamic and unpredictable. Sorry for the bad news. And hackers will continue to take advantage of that. Permanent Remote Work For some companies, some roles will never return to work at the office. The process is working and the competitive advantage in attracting talent is significant. That makes things […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This falls into the “well, it is about time” category. While text message based two factor authentication is, by far, the most popular method of two factor authentication, Microsoft said it should be avoided, along with voice based two factor authentication. Why? Is two factor authentication bad? Or useless? No, none of the above. It […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This seems to keep coming up, so maybe spending a little time on the subject might be helpful. The security or privacy team creates this form for users to acknowledge something or approve something and then hand it off. Marketing gets in the middle of it to make it look pretty. Developers then take a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I sort of stole Brian Krebs’ blog post title and then changed it completely for the counterpoint. Brian’s actual title (nothing against Brian; I have spoken with him multiple times; he is a good guy) is WHY Paying to Delete Stolen Data is Bonkers . In concept, I don’t argue with it. Brian’s claim is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Finland-based psychotherapy group Psychotherapy Center Vastaamo may need some therapy itself. They claim that in late 2018-early 2019 hackers broke into their network. Just this month it has come out that the company, which has 20+ offices and 300 or so shrinks may have lost the data of 40,000 patients, some of whom are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Orca Security scanned more than 2,200 virtual appliance images – the same ones that your company probably uses every day. The images represented over 500 vendors. They were found on the marketplaces at Amazon, Microsoft, Google and others. They included both open source and commercial (licensed) software. Orca created a scoring system that ran from […]
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