The Athens Orthopedic Clinic in Georgia suffered a breach in June of this year. Even though they discovered the breach within two weeks of it occurring, the hackers made off with information on 200,000 current and former patients. The information taken includes names, addresses, socials, birth dates, phone numbers, diagnoses and medical histories. One of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft VP Joe Belfiore recently admitted that home users are going to be hard pressed to stop the Windows 10 upgrade train. Windows 10 has been reclassified as an optional update now so that if you have Windows configured to install optional updates, Windows 10 will be installed by default. Early next year, Microsoft will […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While there has been a lot of noise over the ECJ ruling invalidating Safe Harbor based on NSA spying among other things, there has not been much talk about what the EU countries are doing. Basically, it is no different than what we are doing. Given that most communications live on the Internet, you certainly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today, The Intercept published a series of articles on the U.S. “drone wars”. The drone wars are the efforts by the U.S. to find and kill terrorists where ever they may be on the planet. Drones are far more effective and put less American lives at risk than conducting war and spying “the old fashioned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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]This afternoon, Google Apps went down for a few hours. Judging by the activity on the Twitterverse, you would have thought the world had ended. You can check the outage yourself by going to Google’s AppsStatus page on the web (google.com/appsstatus). It appears that Google Docs, Sheets, Drive and other parts of the Google Apps […]
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