It seems simple, right? You pay for a cloud application to do something – or maybe it is free and you assume the vendor is responsible for the security of your data. Turns out, it is not quite that simple. In fact, far from it. Identity attacks – where the attacker somehow compromises an account, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The simplest form of PCI compliance is a self assessment and most companies qualify. The simplest form of a self assessment is a SAQ-A or -A-EP. This assessment form is for merchants that do not collect or store payment card information and outsource the payment process pretty much completely. If you capture the card info […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One downside of these mega mergers is that things that have nothing to do with each other are now totally related to each other. Two recent cases. Jeffrey Piccolo filed a lawsuit after his wife, Karen, died at a Disney owned restaurant in Florida. She had a fatal reaction to the food after being assured […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For a while I had a counter on the weekly newsletter of the number of victims. At some point it seems to have calmed down. Now the hacker has released more data, including Amazon employee data. The hacker said that what you have seen is less than 0.001 percent of the data he/she has. He/she […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Housing Market Bracing For Interest Hike Since Trump Won Now that Donald Trump was elected this week, economists are betting that inflation will go up. Research firm Capital Economics plans to actually raise its interest-rate forecast because its economist Thomas Ryan suspects the Federal Reserve’s reaction will be to pull back on slashing rates. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This could all change depending on the outcome of today’s election, but, here is what is currently scheduled to happen in the realm of state privacy laws. I say this could all change because the new administration could figure out a way to cancel all of these state privacy laws – say by passing a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]