This is really an informational piece, along with some whining on my part, since there is not much you can do about this. The FCC today approved the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile, thereby reducing the number of cell carriers from 4 to 3. The republican members of the FCC said that history not withstanding, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]How much does cyber crime cost us anyway? I rant about it all the time, but really, in dollars, what does it cost? Different researchers give different answers and your mileage may vary, but here are some answers: Cybercrime makes, AT LEAST, $1.5 trillion more than the drug trade Cybercrime would rank as the 13th largest economy […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Johannesburg, South Africa Attacker Threatens Data Breach In what I think is going to be the way of the future, hackers compromised Joburg IT systems and threatened to publish data that they stole if the ransom is not paid. As I write this, the deadline has just passed, they have not paid the ransom, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well it seemed like the whole damn country. Over 15,000 website have been hacked, including, not surprisingly, newspapers, government offices and TV stations. After the sites were defaced by the hackers, they were taken offline. Newspapers said it was the biggest attack in the country’s history, even bigger than the 2008 attack by Russia. This […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, this is not an Apple-bashing post, just coincidence. The problem could just as easily happen to an Android user. The short answer to the question in the subject of this post is, apparently, at least according to the courts in London. Here is the story. Jemima is a digital convert. She is a resident […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]These are the words right out of the mouth of Katie Arrington, The Pentagon’s Chief Information Security Officer for the acquistion policy office. Katie reports up to Kevin Fahey, the Assistant Defense Secretary for Acquisition. He is the guy who is responsible making sure that the Pentagon spends those hundreds of billions of dollars a […]
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