First it was Marriott. The breach of Marriott’s Starwood division systems exposed data on 500 million clients and triggered multiple lawsuits and investigations. That breach was four years in the making and across two different management teams – first at Starwood and then at Marriott. Undetected. This week 1-800-Flowers announced that it too was breached. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While this is still a bit like Jello (R) waiting to congeal, the Australian Assistance and Access Bill is designed to require back doors in encrypted communications like Whats App and iMessage. COMPANIES THAT DEVELOP SOFTWARE THAT USE END TO END ENCRYPTION NEED TO PAY ATTENTION TO WHAT HAPPENS SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE APPROPRIATE […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably figured out that it is a cryptocurrency (AKA Bitcoin) wallet. But there is something that makes this bitcoin wallet different from the tens of millions of Bitcoin wallets out there in the wild. Making a payment to this Bitcoin wallet may classify you a terrorist and subject you to arrest and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Microsoft Azure and O.365 Multi-Factor Authentication Outage Microsoft’s cloud environment had an outage this week for the better part of a day, worldwide. The failure stopped users who had turned on two factor authentication from logging in. This is not a “gee, Microsoft is bad” or “gee, two factor authentication is bad” problem. All systems […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The stats say that 75% of all bits on the Internet are for video and that is a number that is up from 63% two years ago. Cisco says that Internet traffic will reach 396 exabytes a month by 2022. That is 396,000,000,000,000,000,000 . Which is a big number. While regular video for, say, Netflix, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Stefano Gabbana is known for very edgy ads and posts on social media. Some people say over the edge – way over the edge. The brand ran a series of commercials of Chinese people eating pizza and other Italian foods with chopsticks on the eve of a star-studded fashion show in Hong Kong. I suspect […]
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