The European Union has passed a new privacy law called the General Data Protection Regulation and it goes into effect in May of 2018. For companies that do not do business or have customers in Europe, this regulation may not effect you. However, if you have customers in Europe, even if you do not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]And, I suspect, an attorney may be looking for a new job. About a week ago the New York Times disclosed that a former employee who was suing Wells Fargo Advisors (WFA) received data that he had not asked for – 1.4 gigabytes of data, actually. Data on, he said, over 50,000 high net worth […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]An undisclosed attack vector allowed a hacker to steal $8.4 million in Ethereum, a competitor to Bitcoin, during it’s “initial coin offering”. This is the fourth time this month Ethereum alone was attacked, not counting attacks on other cryptocurrencies (Bitcoin and Ethereum are two popular cryptocurrencies – that is, so called currencies based on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swedish government has become embroiled in a scandal after an IT outsourcing deal went horribly wrong. There was an old TV commercial that included the line “No one ever got fired for buying IBM”, implying that IBM was a safe bet. Not in this case. The Swedish Transport Agency decided to outsource it’s […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is one of those pretty strange stories. An Albuquerque man is in jail charged with beating and threatening his girlfriend and the prime witness is …. yes … an Amazon Echo. The suspect, Eduardo Barros, was arrested July 2nd after a standoff with Albuquerque SWAT police officers. The couple was house sitting for the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This story is fictitious, but probably something very similar has happened way too many times to someone. The CEO/CIO of the company tries to log in to one of the cloud services that the company uses and it says that the password is incorrect. He or she calls customer service and explains the situation. I […]
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