This is really an informational piece, along with some whining on my part, since there is not much you can do about this. The FCC today approved the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile, thereby reducing the number of cell carriers from 4 to 3. The republican members of the FCC said that history not withstanding, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, this is not an Apple-bashing post, just coincidence. The problem could just as easily happen to an Android user. The short answer to the question in the subject of this post is, apparently, at least according to the courts in London. Here is the story. Jemima is a digital convert. She is a resident […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]These are the words right out of the mouth of Katie Arrington, The Pentagon’s Chief Information Security Officer for the acquistion policy office. Katie reports up to Kevin Fahey, the Assistant Defense Secretary for Acquisition. He is the guy who is responsible making sure that the Pentagon spends those hundreds of billions of dollars a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]SIMJacking, the attack where a hacker replaces the SIM card that is associated with your phone in the carrier’s database with the attacker’s SIM card number and then has access to all of your phone calls and text messages, is becoming more popular – because it is profitable. At this point, the carriers have not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]After the FTC created a settlement with Equifax over the breach in 2017 of the data of close to 150 million people that turned out to be mostly smoke and mirrors, some of the lawsuits are now moving forward showing how bad things were at Equifax. Equifax used a default userid of admin and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Less Than Half of Mississippi State Agencies Even Have a Cybersecurity Policy In Mississippi’s first ever state cybersecurity audit, the state auditor reported dismal results. 54 state agencies did not respond to the audit. 38% of those responding did not encrypt sensitive data. 22 agencies had not conducted a third party security risk assessment. 11 […]
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