When GDPR first went into effect in May 2018, people talked about horror stories of fines to the tune of 4% of a company’s total global revenue. Then reality hit and there were no fines or tiny fines. Or so it seemed. The problem with regulators is that it always takes them a while. Legitimately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Patches This Week Microsoft issued an emergency out of band patch for an Internet Explorer zero day bug that affects IE 9, 10 and 11 on Windows 7,8,10 and the related server versions. The bug allows a hacker to remotely execute code by getting a victim to view a web page, HTML document, PDF or […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some of you may remember that the FCC fined Marriott $600,000 a year ago when it was disclosed that Marriott was blocking personal WiFi hot spots so that customers were forced to use the Hotel’s convention centers WiFi, which often costs hundreds of dollars a day or more. This summer, the FCC fined Smart City, an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an article on CNN.com and other places, the FCC has fined Marriott $600,000 for doing what I suspect other properties have been doing also but not (yet) caught at. According to CNN, Marriott, for reasons unknown, decided that they should be allowed to kill visitors Wi-Fi hot spots that were not connected to […]
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