Maybe a little good will come from the day the Internet died last week. And maybe, also, a little bad. To very briefly recap, attackers using the now free and open source malware Marai attacked Dyn’s servers. Dyn provides DNS services to the likes of Twitter, Amazon and hundreds of other companies. The attack against […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]While the big data vs. insurance rates battle is in its infancy, that does not mean that insurers don’t have plans. They do. Some are already using data from consumers to affect rates. Some insurers say that the data that consumers give them could lower rates and SOME insurers say that the data won’t be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, not exactly, but close. And it was not due to pictures of Kim Kardashian. Here is what happened. When you type in the name of a website to visit, say Facebook.com, the Internet needs to translate that name into an address. That address might look like 157.240.2.35 . The software that translates those names […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you probably remember Edward Snowden (just kidding!). Snowden was a Booz, Allen, Hamilton employee, on contract to the NSA. Well now there is another Snowden at Booz. Booz has annual revenue in excess of $5 billion and has contracts all over the federal government. Earlier this month, the feds arrested Harold Thomas Martin […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]cYou may need a scorecard to keep track of the players, but ponder this. Codman Square Health Center in Boston reported a breach to HHS. However, it was not THEIR system that was breached. Codman participates in a regional Health Information Exchange, the New England Healthcare Exchange, a mandated mechanism for doctors to exchange information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As has been predicted, in a court filing from May 2016, the DoJ authorized the cops to “depress the fingerprints and thumbprints of every person who is located at the subject premises during the execution of the search and who is reasonably believed by law enforcement to be the user of a fingerprint sensor-enabled device […]
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