Every time I talk virtualization and cloud security, I am surprised by the number of people who do not follow the basics. The basics have been around since 2004. The funny thing is, I also see the basics misquoted all the time. People try to interject their language into something already simple, yet by doing …
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On the face of it, Avast is in a bit of a pickle. One of its headline applications, CCleaner, has just infected over two million consumer PCs across the globe with quite a sophisticated piece of malware. How it as a company handles the cleanup process is going to be quite telling.
CCleaner, a program owned by Avast, is the center of a major security scare. Why should you be worried? Well, this product is used by millions of Windows users worldwide to run maintenance on their registry and file systems on their consumer Windows machines. The product has had over two billion downloads in its lifetime, …
It is time to update your security, data protection, disaster recovery, and all IT policies and guidance. So much has changed in the last year. Now we need to incorporate it into our IT guidance and policies. Security has changed, data protection has changed, and everything else has changed. The only constant is change. Many …
Block chain is being sold as the cure-all to all the world’s financial problems—so much so that attacks against block chain are growing. Actually, the attacks are against everything but the chain itself these days. Just what is block chain and how can it help? Many sites have defined block chain, so we are not …
GDPR is a new set of European regulations that, in a nutshell, set out to codify how a data holder should secure and protect any personal data that they hold. Further, it also codifies the rights of the individual regarding any data held about them. Of course, it being a European regulation, it is obviously a …
