If you’ve been reading much of the news about the recent Equifax data breach, you may have seen someone asking whether the Chief Information Security Officer is actually qualified for her job, based on her undergrad degree being in music. As others have pointed out, what her undergrad studies were probably didn’t have much to…
What this does is tell us that Equifax isn’t all that different than law firms. Sure, we want to make sure patches and updates are applied, we all have a time set aside to do exactly that on a regular basis. We tell everyone when it’s time to do that, and during the updates certain…
I wouldn’t go as far as to say it’s not a good thing that they did it, but I think it sort of exposed something we haven’t really thought much about: “The first thing you need to understand is that while Tesla sells different version of its Model S, with different ranges, the range is…
Seems to maybe be just a small subset of users who might have been infected, but this is scary. Thankfully, it looks like this malware only affected a certain subset of CCleaner users. In particular, it affected: Users running the 32-bit version of the application (not the 64-bit version) Users running version 5.33.6162 of CCleaner…
I was having a conversation about this with someone recently, the fact that once someone has convinced themselves that there is some massive conspiracy involving the government and media, etc, you can’t disprove it. There’s no point in arguing it, because clearly any evidence offered is part of the conspiracy, and any scientific study contradicting…
As an industry, we’re always behind, but this is telling – “As new types of content materialize from various applications and devices, the e-discovery process will become more difficult. According to a recent report from Osterman Research, any electronic information is potentially subject to e-discovery, including text messages, social media posts, data in collaboration…