So two Harvard students wondered just how much information was out there that had simply, been dumped online and made publicly available by hackers. Then, they also wondered how much of this data could be combined to identify and track people across various websites. What they found, was worse than most of us imagine. “We…
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I wrote about Section 230 last week. This comes from David French at Time. “It’s difficult to overstate how important this law is for the free speech of ordinary Americans. For 24 years we’ve taken for granted our ability to post our thoughts and arguments about movies, music, restaurants, religions, and politicians. While different sites…
This is not good. Not good at all. Companies are getting hit with ransomware, and not disclosing that the data, your data, is out there. I wonder how many of this companies are actually in places with data breach laws and are now facing some fines for that as well? “According to Emsisoft threat analyst…
Granted, these numbers are from a survey done by ProofPoint, and aren’t likely to be scientifically sound, but they still are overwhelming. Clearly a lot of security professionals are dealing with phishing attacks. More than half (55 percent) of surveyed organizations dealt with at least one successful phishing attack in 2019, and infosecurity professionals reported…
As many of you know, when I made a job change last year most of the impetus for that change was a desire for more flexibility, especially when it came to working remotely. After 5 years of travelling around the world, followed by two plus years of working in an office, I realized that what…