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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Back in the old days – like 2 or 3 years ago – laptops had power adapters that plugged into a charging connector and USB ports that allowed users to plug in USB peripherals like keyboards and flash drives and other devices. In an effort to make things easier for users – and, in fairness, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You have to admire the gall of some marketing departments. Today, Google announced that it was shutting down the consumer version of Google Plus after a breach of 500,000 users information. SIX MONTHS AGO. They said they shut it down because user engagement was low – I guess that means that no one was actually […]
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