• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-12-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on ‘Your face is big data:’ The title of this photographer’s experiment says it all

Got privacy? You may think you do, but a recent experiment by a Russian photographer suggests otherwise.In a project entitled, "Your face is big data," Rodchenko Art School student Egor Tsvetkov began by photographing about 100 people who happened t... Read More

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-12-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on IRS security is failing taxpayers, senator says

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the Congress, and private electronic tax-filing vendors aren’t doing enough to protect the personal information of taxpayers, senators said Tuesday.The IRS needs to step up its cyberecurity efforts, said members of the Senate Finance Committee, citing […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-12-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on IRS security is failing taxpayers, senator says

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service, the Congress, and private electronic tax-filing vendors aren’t doing enough to protect the personal information of taxpayers, senators said Tuesday.The IRS needs to step up its cyberecurity efforts, said members of the Senate Finance Committee, citing […]

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• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Apr-12-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Jigsaw crypto-ransomware deletes more files the longer you delay paying

Understanding how to buy bitcoins and pay ransomware authors for decryption keys is hard enough, yet some cybercriminals now expect their victims to do it in under an hour if they want all of their files back.
A new ransomware program […]

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