In an interesting turn of events, Republican US Senator Roger Wicker’s staff has written a draft federal privacy bill. It’s main goal is to overturn California’s privacy law that goes into effect in January. Of course, there are only 28 days between now and January 1, so I would be really surprised if the bill […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The nuclear power industry has always been nervous about people’s fear of some form of nuclear meltdown. Whether it was Three Mile Island or Chernobyl, the spectre of something bad happening at a nuclear plant has been the story of made for TV movies. The UK Telegraph newspaper has obtained information, using a freedom of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more users install ad blocking software and browsers such as Firefox and Safari start blocking some ad trackers by default, advertisers decided to come up with a new solution to track everything you do. This new technique is a bit technical, but I will try to keep it high level. Typically, the company tracking […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Problem with Big Data is, Well, That it is Big On October 16th researchers revealed that they had found an exposed database with 4 billion records covering 1.2 billion people. The first database contained information on 1.5 billion unique people (note these numbers do not exactly match) including work phone numbers and mobile phone […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Yesterday’s list was so long I decided to break it into two posts. Here is the second part. To recap – here are some recommendations from Dark Reading. Most people will pick and choose from this list, but pick some today and then come back in a week or a month and pick a few […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As my son likes to say, nothing it bulletproof – it all depends on the size of the bullet. Likewise, nothing is 100% secure (except the computer that has never been taken out of the box) but your actions can improve the odds dramatically. Here are some recommendations from Dark Reading. Most people will pick […]
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