Net Neutrality and The Dismantling of Regulations
On December 14th, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is set to vote on whether or not to dismantle the regulations put in place in February 2015 by the Obama administration. This...
Why facial recognition systems should be regulated
Chris Middleton reports on a complex debate as the US considers putting legal restrictions on facial recognition systems.
Moves are afoot in the US to regulate facial recognition technology. This month, two...
The Nth party: compliance with anti-bribery and corruption laws
For Fortune Global 1000 companies with complex global footprints and multiple third party affiliations, compliance with cybersecurity regulations, including anti-bribery and corruption laws, is a challenge. Global supply chains are inevitably...
Hackers Running Fake Websites To Mimic Major UK Banks
American Cyber Security firm Domain Tools has recently warned that hackers are currently using hundreds of fake websites to mimic major UK banks in order to obtain personal information and the...
Network Vulnerability: Ensuring security from a variety of threats
With the new year and new security threats being added to the list of existing ones, the IT world is increasingly pushing to prioritize security, high availability, and disaster recovery for...
Tracking, Privacy, and Frauds: How The Peer Economy Makes Fakery Pointless
There’s a pervasive scam going on in IT. You mention in an email to a friend how you wish you were on a tropical island vacation, only to be inundated with...
How to Avoid a Gulag Lockdown in Your Cloud Vendor Choices
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn shocked the western world about the conditions in Siberian prison camps in his three volume expose titled The Gulag Archipelago in the mid 20th century. The books ripped through...
JUDY WHO?
Last month’s ransomware attack “WannaCry” locked out many computers across the world and spread chaos in the hospitality and banking sector. One would have thought that internet security agents would have...
Phishing for the Big One
Phishing has usually been consigned to Nigerian princes and retirees who had no idea about technology. Those duped by these scams have traditionally been the laughing stock of the tech world,...
Windows bugs have come to resemble the Hydra of Ancient Mythology
The Lernaean Hydra in Roman mythology was a frightening beast. It had seven snake heads. If a warrior cut off one of the heads, it simply regrew while the others continued...
