You might think this is obvious, but just in case it is not, California wants to make this clear. It used to be, in California, that if you had sensitive data encrypted and that data was stolen, you didn’t have to tell people because, after all, it was encrypted. But there is a rub with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Peachtree Orthopaedic Clinic, announced a breach last month. Now the hackers behind the attack, the Dark Overlord, say that the clinic owner has not paid the ransom – 83 bitcoins or around $60k – and they are threatening to release more records. Last month they released names, birth dates, addresses, prescription info and socials of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]LinkedIn is becoming LinkedOut, at least in Russia. Our friend Vladimir Putin passed a law in 2014 that said that any company that operates in Russia needs to store it’s user’s data in country. Most U.S. companies protested against it, although it is believed that a few have an architecture that allows them to do […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FBI Director Comey has talked a lot about the “going dark” problem but we now have some statistics on the problem. So far this fiscal year, the FBI has received 6,814 devices – phones or computers – to forensically examine. Of those devices, only 2,095 of them had any form of password on the device. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Chinese parliament is about to enact a new cybersecurity law which will force U.S. companies doing business in China to make some ugly choices which could, potentially, affect you. If Parliament passes the law on Monday November 7th, it will become law. Foreign business interests (like U.S. tech companies) are sorta unhappy because losing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We often tell you about web sites that use your data and sometimes in ways that you don’t expect, but usually it is to sell it to advertisers. However, apparently, AT&T has created a new revenue stream. AT&T calls the program Project Hemisphere. Hemisphere is a program which allows law enforcement to search AT&T call […]
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