GDPR Gone Crazy I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat! According to the European Commission, Europe’s data protection regulators received more than 95,000 complaints about possible data breaches in the first 8 months of GDPR. At the same time businesses reported over 41,000 breaches. But regulators only opened 255 investigations. Many of the complaints […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect. The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A recent study estimates that a coordinated global cyber attack (think Wannacry, but not geographically bounded) could cause economic damages of between $85 billion and $193 billion. The investigation was conducted by Lloyds of London and Aon Insurance as a “stress test” of the industry. Claims would likely include everything from business interruption to incident […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Supply chain risk is a hot button right now and getting hotter. It has always been an issue – it was the source of the Target breach, the Home Depot Breach, Panama Papers and thousands of others that you never heard about. According to a Ponemon study, 56% of organizations admit that they had a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Oklahoma Government Data Left Unprotected The Oklahoma Department of Securities left data going back to at least 1999 unprotected online. Data exposed included state agency passwords and login information, data on FBI investigations, information on thousands of securities brokers and other information. The state says it was unprotected for “a limited duration”. They are investigating. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Imagine watching TV one day and hearing an alert that says that ballistic missiles were headed from North Korea to Los Angeles, Chicago and Ohio. The alert said that people had three hours to evacuate. Ignore for the moment the fact that Russian TOPOL ballistic missiles can travel at up to 15,000 MPH, so it […]
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