“Don’t open it. Or, at least DO NOT click on the link it contains. What will this now-popular hacker email look like? It will be an email from SOMEONE YOU KNOW that looks like this.” Seriously, don’t click on a link in an email unless you were expecting it, and if you’re going to send…
Word has it that the German government is mulling a new law under which Facebook could be fined up to 500,000 euros ($522,000) per fake news story per day it’s on the platform. The law would reportedly apply to other social networks as well. “If after the relevant checks Facebook does not immediately, within 24…
Since we are all in a tizzy about fake news, and Russian hacking, here’s one for you. I’ve seen this headline shared all over the place for the last couple of days: Russian operation hacked a Vermont utility This sounds awful. Clearly the Russians are trying to hack the power grid, and disrupt life in…
“Cybercriminals have made a living targeting industries which are reliant upon information that needs to be readily available and is strictly confidential. This trend puts law firms at high risk due to the nature of their work, and the recent movement of data to cloud-based case management, record searching, research, and platforms for communication. Legal…
Most of you probably haven’t noticed the change on the site over the last few days. At least I hope not many have, but go ahead and look up in your address bar. Yes, the site is no longer http://, it is now https://. The same is true for all of my blogs now. With…
“These are the tools necessary to do real censorship of real and important ideas. Whether Facebook intends to use them that way initially or not, and I’m sure it doesn’t, the simple fact is that there’s no other way a trend toward censorship could possibly start, than this. Simply by setting a precedent that this…