For at least 8 years the government has known that the border entry system has a hole large enough to drive a terrorist through, to abuse a phrase, and has not done anything about it. While the government was twisting the arms of other countries to put chips in their passports – and about a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft has been fighting with the Justice Department for years over some data Justice wants that Microsoft says is stored in Ireland. Justice says Microsoft can bring it back to the US and then they can subpoena it. Microsoft says doing that will break EU laws. The argument goes on. The current status is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If I seem a bit skeptical, that is because I am. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced yesterday that the Justice Department is going to form a committee to study the subject. Last week the leaders of several of the branches of the Intelligence Community testified before Congress saying, publicly, that the Russians did interfere with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On February 15, 2018 a milestone event occurred in New York. For financial institutions licensed in New York (there are about 3,000 of them), The Chairman of the Board, CEO or some other similar executive had to personally sign a document and submit it to the State of New York. The document says that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The White House (Council of Economic Advisors) released a 62 page report today detailing the cost of malicious cyber activity in the U.S. in 2016. The White House says that the cost was between $57 Billion and $109 Billion for that one year. That’s billion with a B. The report is available here. The report says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not Mark Zuckerberg trying to extract a few more cents out of you by pushing more ads to you – in fact, Facebook really doesn’t even have much of a say in this. It is not even a Google thing. Still, it is useful to understand. In the case of a Manhattan woman […]
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