Businesses have long complained about complying with 46 different cybersecurity/privacy laws (plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands) and the lack of a national privacy law. Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico and South Dakota are the only states without such laws. The states have fired back saying that a national […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]AT&T released it’s first public cybersecurity incident analysis report last week. As a network security services provider, they get to see the attacks in real time. One service that AT&T offers is to mitigate security threats in the network before they ever reach you. They also offer cyber security consulting services. AT&T’s competitor Verizon also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Former NSA director Michael Hayden says that he would not support [FBI] Director [James] Comey’s demands for access, according to a story by Motherboard. This goes against the “wishes” of the current FBi director and head of the NSA. It is clear to me that if everything is transmitted unencrypted, with weak encryption or with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]American Banker ran a piece this morning digesting the Experian breach announced last week. It said it was good that the breach only compromised 15 million T-Mobile customers instead of the hundreds of millions of customers that probably live in the Experian Decision Analytics service platform and that it only took them two weeks to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week the SEC released what they call a Risk Alert to Investment Advisors and Broker-Dealers saying that they were concerned about the protection of client information because of recent attacks and attempted attacks against the financial community. In the alert, they laid out the very particular concerns they have in 6 specific areas and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adobe announced patches yesterday for 23 additional Flash vulnerabilities. 18 of these bugs can be used to run malicious code on the underlying computer. To see what version you are running, go to: WWW.Adobe.com/software/flash/about That web page will give you the version that you are running, the current version that you should be running and […]
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