New Jersey enacted a new law which requires data encryption (see bill information) as a response to the health care data breaches – I assume like Anthem. The bill is short, only 4 pages, but, at least to me, that does not make things very clear. The bill covers health insurance carriers, but then defines […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]China Announced that recently (see post) that they were going to stop buying western tech, much to the dismay of companies like Cisco that sells $2 Bil a year in China. Whether this is a move to counter the NSA or just a way to increase the sales of Chinese made tech is unclear. Now the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Too many attacks to write about individually, so I am just going to write a short blurb on each with a link. Oh, My! British Airways – hackers accessed “tens of thousands” of frequent flyer accounts forcing BA to lock down the system, denying users access to the system and requesting that they change their […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Wired reported on the process that the U.S. Federal Government, and more specifically, the Intelligence Community, uses to decide when to keep bugs secret and use them against systems they want to attack and when to reveal them to the vendors to fix. The bugs, known as zero days or O Days, are ones that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The ACLU put together an interesting web page (see here). By surfing the web, they have put together a map with information – as best they have at the moment – of what states are using Stingrays to track citizens and what states are not. I say citizens and not crooks because a Stingray will collect […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Max Schrems, whom I have written about before (see post) is continuing his fight against Facebook. He first took his battle to the Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) since Facebook Europe is based in Ireland, but the DPC declined to take the case, because, it said, it had no legal requirement to do so (meaning […]
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