For Financial Service firms, the message is clear. Both FINRA and the SEC are looking over your shoulder to make sure that you are taking cyber security seriously. And the fines are not small. From hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, firms big and small are getting whacked with fines. In 2014, the SEC […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I generally stay away from politics in this blog, but this item is an interesting intersection of security and politics. And, it is pretty unique. Most non-public sector businesses don’t have to worry about this. While they may or may not let employees use their business email for personal reasons, there are no laws or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former NY mayor Rudolph Giuliani has been in the security business since leaving the mayor’s job in 2001 and is now the cybersecurity czar for President Trump. After he was nominated, security experts checked out his website. The web site, GiulianiSecurity.com is a tad bit unsecure. The site is built using Joomla, a low end content […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Every year at this time there are new laws and this year is no exception. Illinois, Nebraska and Nevada have added usernames or email to data elements that are considered personal information if that information is combined with other information that would let a hacker access your online account. In other words, a username with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The 5th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees that you cannot be forced to testify against yourself. All that is about to change and I don’t mean that the Constitution is going to change. Like the Apple-FBI fight earlier this year, Amazon is in a fight with the law and I don’t think it is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you may be aware that earlier this year the FBI outed two major New York based law firms – Cravath, Swaine & Moore (500 attorneys) and Weil, Gotshal & Manges (1,000 attorneys) – as being hacked. But they did not give a lot of details. Now some of the details are coming out, […]
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