You can get anything on the Internet. One of the relatively recent additions are web sites that you can pay (I presume in Bitcoin) to “stress” a web site that you don’t like. Stress is a euphemism for denial of service attacks which force the target site offline. They have charged 3 men today – […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems that the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights is increasing enforcement actions against health care providers and their vendors (known as business associates). While one might have suspected that enforcement actions would be down under this administration, in fact, the opposite is true and fines are up. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is still a bit like Jello (R) waiting to congeal, the Australian Assistance and Access Bill is designed to require back doors in encrypted communications like Whats App and iMessage. COMPANIES THAT DEVELOP SOFTWARE THAT USE END TO END ENCRYPTION NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT HAPPENS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE APPROPRIATE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably figured out that it is a cryptocurrency (AKA Bitcoin) wallet. But there is something that makes this bitcoin wallet different from the tens of millions of Bitcoin wallets out there in the wild. Making a payment to this Bitcoin wallet may classify you a terrorist and subject you to arrest and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In general, the U.S. ranks below many third world countries in the speed, quality and cost of Internet access. If you ask your neighbors what they think about the price, speed and customer service of their internet provider , you will generally not get a positive answer. My brother lives in Europe and his internet […]
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