In spite of the salacious sounding title, even though The post discusses social media, it IS suitable for work. What is not suitable for work is what people are doing online. Grindr, a social media platform catering to gay and bi-sexual men is being sued by Matthew Herrick who says that 1,100 men have showed […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Occasionally, the good guys win. Russian hacker Roman Seleznev, son of a Russian Parliament member was sentenced to 27 years in jail after being convicted on 38 counts. The idiot made the mistake of vacationing in the Maldives, either thinking the FBI didn’t know who he was, wasn’t watching him or thinking he was special […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Another day, another healthcare ransomware attack. Erie County Medical Center and Terrace View long term care in Buffalo, New York have been dealing with a ransomware attack for about 10 days now. On April 9th, a Sunday, the computers got hit by what they are only calling a virus, but according to someone I talked […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]37 billion dollars. Is that enough reason? As health premiums increase, more people, especially healthy ones, are moving to high deductible health plans (HDHPs). A feature of all HDHPs is the option to create a health savings account (HSA). HSAs are tax advantaged in several ways, so most people who have HDHPs also have HSAs. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft has been, ever since Windows 10 was released, on a race to collect more and more data on how you as a user do things. While users have complained, Microsoft remained steadfast and not only did not change its habits, but also remained pretty quiet as to what data they were collecting. Then the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Evan Schuman wrote an opinion piece in Computerworld yesterday that I found very interesting. Neimans suffered a credit card breach in 2013 that would be considered small by today’s standards. Initially they reported that a million cards were compromised; later that number was reduced to about 375,000. About 9,000 of those cards were used for […]
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