FBI Asks Google for Information on ALL People Near Certain Crimes Now that we know that Google tracks you even if you ask nicely for it not to, this news from BBC becomes more interesting. The FBI issued a search warrant to Google for information on all people within a 100 acre block around a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Adams County, Wisconsin is now facing a crisis of confidence and likely some lawsuits as well. Why? On March 28, 2018, the county says, it uncovered “questionable activity” on county computer systems. Three months later, in late June, their investigation was complete. The result: 258, 120 people had their data illegally accessed. Data included protected […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Judge Koh, who has been involved in many high profile high tech lawsuits such as Apple v. Samsung, gave final approval to a $115 million settlement for damages as a result of the Anthem breach. While this is only one lawsuit – I am sure there are others – it is important if only for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Let’s assume that you are a major international airport that moves 45 million passengers and 97,000 tons of cargo a year, Then let’s say you have some form of IT failure. How do you communicate with your customers? At London’s Gatwick airport, apparently your DR plan consists of trotting out a small white board and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hamas Creates Fake Missile Warning App to Hack Israelis The Times of Israel is reporting that Hamas has created and was distributing a fake Code Red rocket warning app. The app, according to Clearsky Cyber Security, takes over the phone and is impossible to remove, even if the app is deleted. Once infected, the app […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since Office 365 is the dominant office productivity suite, knocking Google on it’s butt, it is not a surprise that hackers are going after it hard. To compare, I didn’t find great numbers and Google probably does not want me to do this comparison, but Office has 120 million paid users as of 2017 and […]
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