I have been tempted, from time to time, to use cloud apps to do things like convert PDFs to Word documents or reformat videos and the like. To date, I have successfully resisted that urge. Apparently, there is some merit to that restraint. That does not mean that the cloud is evil. What it does […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cyber Insurance Prices Trending Down After insurance rates soared between 2020 and 2022, prices went down a little bit (15 percent) in 2023 due to increased competition, better vetting on the part of insurance companies and better company cybersecurity practices. It will be interesting to see where this trend goes, but we will take this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let me give you the answer up front – we won’t know the full extent of it for years. Okay, first what is Chevron? In the last days of this year’s Supreme Court term, the court issued a ruling that says that the forty year old Supreme Court ruling, Chevron, the court said that lower […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Evolve Bank & Trust breach is getting uglier by the day. In fairness, it didn’t start out very pretty. A ransomware gang claimed they hacked the Federal Reserve and wanted millions in ransom. It turns out that they attacked Evolve and did, in fact, steal a bunch of data from them. Evolve had been […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Good news and bad news — After five years and many false starts, it looks like CMMC may happen this fall – MAY HAPPEN. That is good news if you are concerned about national security. But bad news if you will have to comply, likely some time in 2025, with CMMC and get certified. A […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NYC’s Gotham Restaurant Forced to Close After Cyber Scam Hopefully they will be able to re-open, but for businesses, the law is much less forgiving. The ritzy Greenwich Village restaurant fell for a business email compromise attack that had it send its payroll money to what they thought was their payroll service’s “new” bank account. […]
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