First a disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and don’t pretend to be one on the Internet – at least most of the time. The Uber Waymo trade secret theft trial is being delayed once again. Why? Because the Department of Justice showed the Judge a 37 page letter from the lawyer of a former […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have written about the troubles of Cottage Health System in California. They were breached and the protected Health Information of at least 32,000 patients was compromised. The situation was that they had outsourced the storage of patient records to InSync, which by itself is not a problem, but InSync made this data available on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]What would happen to your business if your credit card processor shut down? If you do online bill pay, what would happen if it shut down? Millions of people and businesses got to figure that one out this month when Paypal’s TIO Networks unit suddenly shut down. TIO does payment processing, both for merchants and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The British shipping company Clarksons was hacked and decided not to pay the ransom. So far, nothing new. No ransom, no data. Well, maybe, they had backups that they could restore – and thumb their nose at the hackers. I think this is becoming a bigger problem for hackers. As a result, hackers are changing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senator Bill Nelson of Florida has introduced a bill as a result of the Uber disclosure that they forgot to tell 57 million people that their data was breached – for a year – that allows for penalties of up to five years in prison for anyone, such as company executives, who willfully conceals a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The basis of all cryptocurrency is a really hard math problem. The idea is that because the math is so hard, it takes a lot of CPU cycles to create the next cryptocurrency coin. It used to be that people, who are called miners, could use their computers to mine the next coin and they […]
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