The Mimecast Incident Report stated that the US Data Centers and disruption of millions of emails were caused by a DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) attack on September 21 from “10:46 am EST – 5:32pm EST.” The September 25, 2015 Incident Report summarized the incident as:
Customers using our US…
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With the help of the financial services industry “the legal sector has launched its own cyber-threat intelligence-sharing mechanism” known as the Legal Services Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (LS-ISAO) Services. The August 2015 Darkreading article entitled “Law Firms Form Their Own Threat Intel-Sharing Group” report included these comments…
Those of us who rely on Mimecast found that we had no email on Monday, September 21, 2015 because of cloud problems which impacted millions of people since we all rely on email as the primary means to communicate. Mimecast seems to be operating okay now and claims to have…
While writing my eCommerce Times column last month it occurred to me that history may be changed if the family member of a British Revolutionary War General could force Google to forget what that General did in the 18th century! I welcome your thoughts and comments about my August…
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The FBI “is warning companies and the general public to be aware of IoT vulnerabilities cybercriminals could exploit” and encourages the use of strong passwords according to a FBI September 10, 2015 Public Service Announcement (PSA) entitled “Internet of Things Poses Opportunities for Cyber Crime.” The PSA Included…
I paste business cards to all new laptops, iPhones, and iPads because maybe somebody will steal the device or I might just lose it, which is likely since Networkworld estimates are “that a laptop is lost every 53 seconds.” The September 10, 2015 Networkworld report is entitled “10 things to…
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Most folks ignore anything to the right of the “.” but Blue Coat warns about the explosion in TLDs and “created a list rating the web’s shadiest and safest neighborhoods” based “on analysis of web requests from more than 15,000 worldwide businesses and 75 million users.” The Blue Coat August…
One might conclude that Google is the Internet law maker after “Google said that starting in November it would begin penalizing sites that show these “please install our app” ads.” The New York Times article on September 2, 2015 entitled “Competitors Accuse Google of Using Search to Diminish Apps…
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Under new publishing rules the EU is consider “Google may eventually have to pay newspaper and magazine groups whenever links to their content are shown on Google’s European aggregation sites.” The New York Times August 29, 2015 story “European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google” include this comment…
