While yet another local government being shut down by a ransomware attack is old news these days, it still can point to a few valuable things. This time it is Davidson County, NC, home of Greensboro. At 2:00 in the morning the county’s CIO was woken up – there was something strange going on with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]On February 15, 2018 a milestone event occurred in New York. For financial institutions licensed in New York (there are about 3,000 of them), The Chairman of the Board, CEO or some other similar executive had to personally sign a document and submit it to the State of New York. The document says that the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The White House (Council of Economic Advisors) released a 62 page report today detailing the cost of malicious cyber activity in the U.S. in 2016. The White House says that the cost was between $57 Billion and $109 Billion for that one year. That’s billion with a B. The report is available here. The report says […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not Mark Zuckerberg trying to extract a few more cents out of you by pushing more ads to you – in fact, Facebook really doesn’t even have much of a say in this. It is not even a Google thing. Still, it is useful to understand. In the case of a Manhattan woman […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The heads of the intelligence community – NSA, CIA, FBI and the Defense Intelligence Agency, appearing in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Chinese smartphones posed a threat to national security. Exactly why they singled out those two Chinese phones, compared to the iPhone, which is likely made in the same factory, is […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Consumer Reports says that Smart TVs by Samsung and multiple brands that are powered by Roku are vulnerable to hacking. While this particular hack won’t empty your bank account, it will allow the hacker to change the channel, volume and other settings. What is even more interesting was the two vendor’s response to being contacted […]
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