Jackson County Pays $400,000 in Ransomware Following a ransomware attack on March 1st, 2019, Jackson County, Georgia decided to pay hackers a ransom of $400,000. The county population is 67,000 according to Google. While hackers may not be explicitly targeting these small municipalities, they may be. After all, small municipalities likely have poor cybersecurity practices […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, we certainly DO live in interesting times. The UK is supposed to leave the EU at the end of March, but no one knows if they will, if there will be a deal, if they will delay Brexit, if they will have another vote. The European Data Protection Supervisor says do not expect anything […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I wrote a while back about hackers that had compromised a law firm and its customer Hiscox insurance – or said differently Hiscox and its vendor. The law firm was handling claims related to 9/11 (almost 20 years later and still litigating!). A lot of law firms (certainly not all) have not figured out that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about 4 different cases where courts are moving in the direction of making it easier for plaintiffs to sue companies in case of a breach. Now we have another situation. In the past, judges have approved settlements that only made the lawyers rich. The plaintiffs sometimes got, literally, nothing. That is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No one has made it out of this life alive. That I am aware of. Sometimes, while it is not comfortable, we know when a loved one is about to pass and sometimes we are able to prepare for it. In other cases, you don’t know it is going to happen and are completely unprepared. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The fight in the U.S. over net neutrality is far from over with each side claiming they are right. In the meantime, the E.U. has required net neutrality since 2016 but has allowed individual countries to figure out how to implement it. Some have implemented it by not doing anything, which gives us an opportunity […]
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