Austria Issues First GDPR Fine; Has 115 Fine Proceeding In Q Austria has issued its first GDPR fine. 4,800 Euros for having a security camera that covers the sidewalk (a no-no) without warning people that they are under surveillance. Welcome to GDPR. In the first 100 days of GDPR, they have 115 fine proceedings in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have probably heard about Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks where scammers pose as company executives and ask the accounting department to wire money to them. The FBI says this is highly effective and big business. To the tune of $5 billion in losses since 2013. In fact the SEC discovered that 9 publicly traded […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Normally I would send this out as a client alert, but given the enormity of this, I think it needs wider distribution. PHP is the “P” in the LAMP web server stack as in Linux, Apache, MySql and PHP. PHP is the scripting language turned programming language that many web servers run on. January 1, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seema Verma, the administrator of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services at the Department of Health and Human Services wants fax machines out of doctor’s offices by 2020. She wants them out of doctor’s offices because they are not cool. She wants to replace them with super-non-secure apps for your phone that are way […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Data Aggregator Apollo Loses Data on 200 Million Apollo’s business model is to aggregate both publicly available data and company private data to build profiles used to market to people. Apollo’s 212 million contacts, 10 million companies and 9 billion data points are now public. In addition to names and email addresses, the company also […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For years the big three national credit bureaus made buckets of money from people who were concerned about thieves stealing their credit. You could “Freeze” your credit report which made it unavailable to creditors, with certain limited exceptions. What this meant is that if someone stole your identity and tried to open a bank or […]
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