The backup has to be offline, disconnected from the computer that gets infected. “Keeping a backup copy of vital data is a good way of reducing the damage of a ransomware attack: it allows companies to get systems up and running again without having to pay off the crooks. But that backup data isn’t much…
Going #Faceless One in four Americans won’t do business with data-breached companies – How soon before we can’t find any who weren’t though? Keeping machine learning algorithms humble and honest in the ‘ethics-first’ era Sitting at the Same Lunch Table: 3 Key Ways to Ensure Legal and IT are in Sync The Workstream of eDiscovery:…
Contrary to their claims, it seems like the company is willing to let anyone use their facial recognition search tool, and they seem unable to keep their own data safe. That’s not a good look. Read the whole thing, and prepare to be shocked, shocked I tell you, that a company willing to grab millions,…
This is actually pretty cool. “The web browser, Brave, now has a feature that revives dead web pages with the help of Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine which stores snapshots of billions of web pages. As time goes on, more and more pages go offline and can cause a bit of a headache for those who…
I think, statistically speaking, there’s no way that it won’t. I’m listening to a recent episode of Seth Godin’s podcast entitled Sample Size http://aca.st/0d21e1. Go listen to it, really. What struck me from some of the examples that he gave, especially when talking about the football prediction sites, is that as we collect more and…
Rick does a good job of describing how he can look at this email and determine that it’s a scam, but maybe this is the easiest one: “Finally, if AmEx is going to give me a credit, they will just credit the account, and explain the credit on the account page. There are other clues;…