As a safeguard for patients’ personal or financial data, to protect the integrity of pharmaceutical products and medical processes, and for various other reasons, organizations operating in the healthcare sector are required to comply with conditions set out by legal frameworks such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). These provide recommendations and regulatory compliance demands which are … Read More
How GPUs Are Used In Cryptocurrency Mining
The increasing market activity and sometimes astronomical rise in the value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin, and Ripple in recent months has done more than create profit-making opportunities for eager investors. There’s been a knock-on effect on the computer market, as more people realize the potential to make money through creating these digital assets by generating them through the … Read More
Cyber Threats – How the Public is at Risk from Cyberattack
Given the number of media reports on high-profile cyber-attacks involving well-known brand names, organizations, or celebrities, you might be forgiven for assuming that only huge corporations or the rich and famous are targeted for cyber-crime attacks. But this is a dangerous assumption to make – one that can lead “ordinary” citizens to become dismissive or complacent, when it comes to … Read More
Top 5 Cybersecurity Mistakes That Make Life Easy for Cyber-criminals
Though high-profile assaults on huge corporations or well-known web platforms grab the most attention when they make the news, cyber-criminals are at work at all levels – from attacks on private individuals, to attempts made on businesses and organizations of all types and sizes. In recent times, they’ve met with increasing success, resulting in huge personal and corporate losses in … Read More
TCP Starvation
Since information has become the life’s blood and major currency of the digital economy, it’s essential that measures should be taken to ensure that data flows smoothly between those who create it, and those who are meant to receive it. This is particularly true of the internet, which is the world’s major transport medium for digital information and content of … Read More
How GDPR Will Benefit Large American Tech Companies
The General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) was created by lawmakers in the European Union (EU) as a means of strengthening privacy protection and upholding the rights to personal information of consumers in the European continent. There’s a lot of speculation – and a fair amount of scrambling to get things put in place – as the … Read More
Smartphone Data Tracking
If you’re a smartphone user, you’ll probably find that the little mobile device not only remains with you for the larger part of each day but that it also plays some kind of a role in practically every aspect of your daily life. Whether that simply means checking the time or checking in with your social media and messaging services … Read More
Car Companies and Big Data – How Smart Cars Collect Your Data
Gone are the days when vehicular transport simply meant four wheels, an internal combustion engine, two or more doors, and a solid roof (if you were lucky). Cars, trucks, and buses of the digital age typically carry around 40 microprocessors and dozens of electronic sensors to regulate their functions and monitor performance. And like other mechanisms and appliances which incorporate … Read More
Spectre and Meltdown
2018 has just begun – and already we’ve seen the year’s first major cyber-security crisis. It concerns two vulnerabilities with the capacity to affect the majority of computers, smartphones, laptops, and tablets developed since 2011 – and it’s got individual citizens and businesses (including some of the world’s most heavyweight commercial organizations) scrambling to make sense of the issues, and … Read More
Benefits of Companies Taking Out Cybersecurity Insurance
Security and business IT professionals are pretty much in agreement that it’s impossible for commercial organizations to completely avoid being hit by some form of cyber-attack or security breach – either as a future event or an incident that’s already occurred. While planning, policy-making, and the deployment of security mechanisms, devices, and protocols may offer some relief, the inevitability of … Read More