We have trained users to look for a padlock next to a website’s address like it means that you are safe. Unfortunately, as we all know, it hasn’t quite worked out very well. At least not for us. Expecting the average user to understand what the padlock means – and doesn’t mean – is unreasonable. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.K.’s High Court Gives the U.K. Gov 6 Months to Fix Law Privacy in the U.K. is a bit of wishful thinking. Besides having the most public surveillance cameras in the world (Wikipedia says there is one camera for every 14 people in the country), the government has attempted to kill privacy in other ways. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to a survey conducted by storage software vendor Veritas, 2 in 5 or 40% of what the EU calls “data subjects” (and what the rest of us call people) plan to request businesses to tell them what data they have within the first six months after the GDPR goes into effect later this month. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the wake of all of the breaches that we read about on an almost daily basis, large companies have begun to take the cybersecurity threat seriously. While they are far from perfect, far from secure, they are way more secure than they were even 5 years ago. What that means is that big businesses […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Security. Convenience. Pick one! That is my forever mantra. Now we are finding out that when you login to your favorite site using “Login with Facebook” your data is exposed to third parties. Nice. According to research from “Freedom to Tinker” at Princeton, when a user logs in using Facebook’s API, Javascript on the site […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FDA Begins Process to Change Patching of Medical Devices The Food and Drug administration is beginning to understand that their 19th century strategy that requires manufacturers to recertify their products every time they apply a patch only leads to the devices being hacked – which they are being, regularly. They have also asked Congress for […]
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