Breaches Gone Wild – Very Wild Since EU’s GDPR went into effect on May 25, 2018 – about 18 months ago – 160,000 Breaches have been reported to EU authorities. A calculator will tell you that means that people are reporting between 250 and 300 security incidents A DAY! If you think that magically, 18 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]If you have tried to hire any cybersecurity talent recently, you know that experienced folks are hard to find, hard to keep and expensive. That is why we offer the virtual Chief Information Security Officer program. But if you are the federal government and you have hundreds of agencies and millions of employees – not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is the punch line. Automotive cybersecurity incidents doubled in 2018 and are up 605% since 2016. That doesn’t seem that safe to me. Here are some statistics from Upstreams 2019 automotive cybersecurity report: 330 million vehicles are already connection and top brands in the US say that they will only sell connected vehicles this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, I am not kidding. Currently, your Social Security Number is effectively a national identifier. Except when it is not allowed to be used. In many healthcare situations, they use first and last name plus birth date. Apparently, however, that is more than a bit error prone. This has led to treatment errors and medication […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Text messages, as many people know are not very secure. If you are asking where we are meeting for lunch, you probably don’t care. But many banks use text messages (technically known as SMS or Short Message Service) as a second factor to enhance login security. While it does help some, it would be a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For hundreds of years, government has been the domain of the quill pen and parchment or whatever followed on from that. But now, cities want to join the digital revolution to make life easier for their citizens and save money. However, as we have seen, that has not always worked out so well. Atlanta recently […]
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