Please tune and listen to my friend Lauren Silverman’s interview on KERA/Think of Professor Randolph Lewis about privacy, or lack thereof since “many types of surveillance are pitched as ways to make us safer, almost no one has examined the unintended consequences of living under constant scrutiny and how it…

Continue Reading PBS Audio: Privacy does not exist, and no one cares!!

Every single computer (including cells, tablets, PCs, & servers) has a Central Processing Unit (CPU) made by Intel, AMD, & ARM and security experts found “two problems, called Meltdown and Spectre, could allow hackers to steal the entire memory contents of computers, including mobile devices, personal computers and servers running…

Continue Reading You don’t want to hear this – Chip makers confess that every computer in the world is at cyber risk!

Darkreading  described Blockchain (which allows Bitcoin to operate) as the “distributed ledger technology essentially allows for the creation of a list of records, each record cryptographically linked and secured, thereby enabling greater data integrity for all manner of applications.” The December 29, 2017 article entitled “17 Things We Should…

Continue Reading Blockchain (think Bitcoin technology) is one of the “17 Things” you should have learned about in 2017!

In 2001 Google brought Eric Schmidt aboard for adult supervision, and during his tenure among other earth shattering things Schmidt coined the word “Cloud” (fka time-sharing, and later Application Service Provider – ASP).  The Washington Post December 21, 2017 article entitled “Eric Schmidt is stepping down from his role…

Continue Reading Adult supervision no longer needed at Google (Alphabet)…so Eric Schmidt is stepping aside!

The state of Indiana sued a hotel which “maintained a written policy stating if a consumer made any negative statement, including an online comment or review, regarding their stay at Abbey Inn & Suites, the Defendants would charge the consumer an additional $350.00 and pursue legal action against the consumer.” …

Continue Reading Astroturf Update: State sues hotel for punishing guests for bad reviews!

The Washington Post reported that the “Securities and Exchange Commission recently began cracking down on initial coin offerings, a new type of blockchain-based fundraising mechanism, under its existing authority to regulate securities.”  The December 15, 2017 story entitled “Five myths about bitcoin” which included these comments about the…

Continue Reading Blockchain news -Legal risks are one of the 5 myths of bitcoin (which is powered by Blockchain)!

BusinessInsurance.com reported the comments of Paul Meeusen, head of distributed ledger technology at Swiss Re Ltd. in Zurich that using Blockchain to manage Insurance “seemed very intuitive that this technology was very suitable to some of the key issues we deal with in our industry.” The December 12, 2017 article…

Continue Reading Insurance industry embraces Blockchain, but when? Tomorrow or in 10 years?

Unitrends issued a white paper which stated that “the truth is that all industries are vulnerable to ransomware. Email, databases and business applications run on similar infrastructure and operating systems across all industries.”  The white paper was entitled “Beat Ransomware in 5 Easy Steps, Be Prepared to Fight or…

Continue Reading Of course, testing is 1 of the 5 easy steps to beat Ransomware!