If You Think the Chinese Balloon Incident is a Major Wake-up call … China has been spying on the US for decades. And we have been spying on them. Kind of like Spy vs. Spy in Mad Magazine when we were kids. If you think that the balloon gave China important information – above the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Recently there have been alerts where the number of people who received alerts was vastly larger than optimal. In one case here, instead of notifying a few hundred people, 750,000 people were alerted, including some who were more than 50 miles away from the target area. Some of these were due to system malfunctions/design limitations, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]That is a big number and even if it is off by say 25% or 30%, that is still huge. Cisco Systems surveyed over a thousand organizations across Australia, India, Japan, Germany, the UK and US. All companies had revenues in excess of $500 million, so you can’t say these are small shops without a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oh, Boy, Bad Day at Work – FAA NOTAM Failure Caused by Contractor Deleting Wrong Files The FAA is now saying that the NOTAM failure earlier this month that shut down air traffic for around 90 minutes was caused by human error. A contractor was trying to fix a synchronization problem between the primary and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Simple title; not necessarily a simple question. The current spotlight is on LastPass and its parent company GoTo. As we know, LastPass was compromised over the summer, but, it appears from what we know, that even though the hackers stole some of the password vaults, assuming your master password was strong, we think you are […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Okay, so you don’t really have a choice in this one. This is a little different than say giving your data to Facebook or Twitter. With social media, you can choose not to play. With the credit bureaus, you are not the customer, you are the pawn in the game. Okay, so what did Experian […]
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