The U.S. and Britain announced new restrictions on carry on electronics this week. While this has been considered many times before, it is now being implemented, but only from a limited number of airports and a limited number of airlines. The U.S. and British lists are different – of course. I will only talk about […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]When companies like Microsoft or Oracle develop software, they have massive teams who’s only job is to try and find bugs in the software. They also have made significant investments automated tools to help with software quality assurance. Still Microsoft usually patches 10-20 new bugs month after month. Oracle often patches 100 bugs a quarter. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google and Uber are both working on self driving cars, for different reasons. Google has had a strong lead in the game – until. Google’s self driving car subsidiary called Waymo says it has spent millions of dollars perfecting the technology for self driving cars. A former Google employee, Anthony Levandowski, started the self driving […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more people and more businesses embrace the cloud, the opportunity for disaster goes up. For example, we have seen companies move to the Amazon cloud and then be surprised when their web sites go dark (see this example). There are no silver bullets when it comes to data center availability and the cloud is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 wrote the other day about hackers stealing your phone number to be able to capture the text messages for password resets. Here is another reason to be concerned about the security of your phone and phone number. The banks are walking a tightrope. Millennials just don’t relate to banks the way their parents do, […]
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