Many of you probably remember the very dramatic 60 Minutes segment from a few years ago where they put a reporter inside a Jeep and then disabled the brakes and watched the car go slowly into a ditch. All while the reporter videoed it (see this CBS web page). Not surprisingly, Chrysler quickly fixed the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Vietnam’s New Cybersecurity Law in Effect Vietnam’s new “cybersecurity” law which requires companies to remove any content from the Internet that the government finds offensive went into effect on January 1. It also requires some companies like Facebook and Google to open offices in Vietnam if they want to continue to do business there. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember the Panama Papers hack? 11 million documents stolen causing one Prime Minister to resign and another to be fired? If not, check out an old post here . That hack caused the law firm of Mossack Fonseca to go out of business. We it seems that some other firms may be on the wrong […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FCC to Investigate Centurylink In an example of “can you believe this”, Ajit Pai, who earlier this year said that the FCC can’t regulate Internet providers wants to investigate why Internet provider Centurylink had an outage today that affected 911 call centers across the country. Centurylink, who told people earlier today that if they had […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the trade war between the U.S. and China heats up, President Trump is considering issuing an executive order banning all U.S. companies from buying telecommunications gear from companies deemed to be a national security threat. Right now this threat is deemed to be a targeted attack against two Chinese vendors – ZTE and Huawei. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is a scary thought: According to research, 59% of employees who leave will steal proprietary data, 20% will sell passwords to an outsider and 44% will do so for $1,000. If you don’t already have a employee termination checklist, consider this the perfect start for that list: Cancel the employee’s accounts. Now that companies […]
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