California’s new privacy law, CA AB 375 or the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) along with it’s attendant modifications and rules goes into effect next week. As companies scurry around to meet the January 1, 2020 deadline, here is some information on what CCPA means to the average resident of California and elsewhere. While CCPA […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 2019 Crowdstrike Global Security Attitude Survey said that the total number of organizations around the world paying the ransom after falling victim to a supply chain attack almost tripled from 14% to 39%. In the UK, the number of organizations that have experienced a ransomware attack and then paid the ransom doubled from 14% […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Predictions are that there are going be billions of Internet of Things devices connected to the Internet over the next few years. This past week the story has been about Amazon’s Ring camera – an example of an Internet of Things device. In one case, in Tennessee, someone hacked into a family’s Ring cameras and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Given that the cellular market is pretty well saturated in the developed world and cell companies are not likely to sell a lot of $1,200 cell phones in the developing world, Verizon, AT&T and the others are working overtime to create something to separate you from more of your money. To even the game, you […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Visa published an alert that says that point of sale (PoS) system of North American Fuel Dispenser Merchants (as in gas stations and the folks that make the systems that allow you to “pay at the pump”) are being targeted in credit card skimming attacks. The attack is ongoing, increasing and coordinated – by cybercrime […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Text messages, as many people know are not very secure. If you are asking where we are meeting for lunch, you probably don’t care. But many banks use text messages (technically known as SMS or Short Message Service) as a second factor to enhance login security. While it does help some, it would be a […]
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