The whole model of loyalty programs is how do we make them so hard to use that we can pretend we are giving people something when, in fact, we are not really. Enter the airlines. They give out frequent flyer miles for all kinds of things from actual airline tickets to anything that you buy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swiss banking world has always been secret. Very secret. Even after the U.S. worked out a deal to try and get information from the Swiss for tax evasion reasons, there is still not much transparency. Credit Suisse has had its share of troubles recently including helping wealthy customers evade taxes, engaging in illegal business […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Missouri Prosecutor Wisely Decides Governor is not Tech Smart Remember when the governor got his feeling hurt after a St. Louis newspaper revealed that the education department’s website was publishing the PII of tens of thousands of teachers and asked the Highway Patrol to prosecute the reporter who embarrassed him? The PII was, as a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I just watched a DoD town hall on their current thoughts on CMMC 2.0. Here are some of the highlights: CMMC 2.0 has been stripped down to NIST SP 800-171 (we already knew that) DoD has already had several meetings with NIST about adding (at least some of) the things that were in CMMC 1.0 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King (Maine) have added their names to a letter to the SEC asking them to increase the cybersecurity reporting rules for publicly traded companies. The first of potentially many new SEC rules was rolled out this week requiring investment advisors and investment companies to report cybersecurity incidents and breaches to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Decreased Account Takeovers by 50% by Mandating 2FA Late last year Google forced about a hundred fifty million users to start using multi-factor authentication. What results did they see? Account takeovers in that group were reduced by 50%. Google has previously said that only 10% of their users were using MFA. Now they are […]
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