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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A Houston lawyer is suing Apple alleging that Apple’s Facetime bug (still not fixed) that allowed people to eavesdrop even if you do not answer the call, allowed a private deposition to be recorded. If you are among the geek crowd you probably know that the most paranoid person around, Edward Snowden, required reporters to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Supply chain risk is a hot button right now and getting hotter. It has always been an issue – it was the source of the Target breach, the Home Depot Breach, Panama Papers and thousands of others that you never heard about. According to a Ponemon study, 56% of organizations admit that they had a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Mondelez is the parent company of Nabisco, Oreo, Ritz and many other brands that are part of Kraft Foods. Mondelez, like many other companies, was a victim of the NotPetya attack which turned 1,700 servers and 24,000 workstations at Mondelez into very expensive bricks. Mondelez’ insurance company, Zurich American, denied the claim and hence the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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