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Ransomware: It Certainly Does Make Me WannaCry

May 15, 2017 • Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

It would be surprising if it were upon this page you heard for the first time about the massive ransomware attack that bethumped the internet on Friday.  Starting at 8:00 a.m. Zulu time, it is being called the biggest outbreak ever, and showed up all across the globe.  If you somehow don’t know what I’m [&hellip...

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Cybercreeps and Cybercrats (Part 2)

March 15, 2016 • Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

Part 2 – Working with the (Cyber) Man Homeland security’s broad take on cybersecurity (mentioned in part 1) may be a little expansive, but that only highlights the fact that it is an area of IT that’s uniquely engaged with the tools of...

Treasures in St Peter

Net Neutrality Goes to Washington

December 1, 2014 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

What is an IT executive to think about net neutrality?   The internet is often compared to a highway, a common infrastructure available to all.  The current debate revolves around how strong we’d like to make that analogy.  While consumers and...

Heartbleed

Heartbleed Demands OpenSSL Surgery

April 8, 2014 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

An especially dangerous web vulnerability was discovered and made public yesterday, known as Heartbleed.  You should read no further and simply change your critical online passwords without delay.  Seriously.  Do it now. You can get details in this...

Trust, But Encrypt

January 17, 2014 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

It will come as no surprise that businesses outside of the US are now leery about storing their data inside American borders, as was shown in this survey reported by CIO magazine.   Some non-Americans see the Snowden scandal as an opportunity (The Toronto...

Unbundling Television Channels

October 14, 2013 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

Once again, those frozen-brained Canucks seem to be showing the world how to do business.  First they drove through the financial crisis on the bulletproof tires of their banking regulatory system; now they’re going to apply that regulatory nous to the...

FAA Says Okay to UAVs

August 17, 2013 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

The FAA approval of  certain unmanned aerial vehicle systems clears the way for the go-ahead for commercial operations.   While a lot of thought has already gone into managing this lofty population explosion, nonetheless the day is coming when these things...

Aussie Minister of InfoSec – Not a Bad Idea

August 14, 2013 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

The Australians may be on to something, according to the Register’s article about a down under think tank that’s proposing the establishment of a new ministry of “Security and Resilience”.   There are certainly some good ideas here for...

Take Vehicle-To-Vehicle Step by Step

July 29, 2013 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

Perhaps this should really have been categorized under Innovation, but what caught my eye in this article about vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications was the National Transportation Safety Board’s recommendation that the National Highway Traffic Safety...

Thousands of New Top Level Domains a Step Closer

July 6, 2013 • News, Standards & Regulation • • Comments (0)

The ICANN has announced the approval by its board of the new 2013 Registry Agreement, under which registrars will be able to offer the new generic Top Level Domain names.  For those feeling confined by the same old .com, .net and .org choices, the gTLD...

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