If
there was a CDC for malware, ransomware would be an epidemic.
Puerto
Rico: Two hospitals report ransomware incident potentially affecting
more than 520,000 patients
Add
Bayamón Medical Center and its affiliated Puerto Rico Women And
Children’s Hospital to the list of ransomware victims.
On
July 19, the hospitals notified HHS and the public of a “recent”
security incident that resulted in files being encrypted. No details
were provided as to when this occurred, whether the hospitals paid
any ransom, and whether they have fully recovered all patient
records. Nor do they reveal how the ransomware was inserted into the
system.
Signs
that state governments are getting serious?
Governor
signs bills to help prevent data breaches
Gov.
Andrew Cuomo on Thursday signed legislation that expands the law to
cover any company holding personal data belonging to a New Yorker,
and not just companies
doing business in the state.
The
SHIELD (Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Data Security) Act, which
takes effect in 240 days, will also add email addresses and passwords
and biometric data to the list of information covered by the law.
The measure aims to ensure consumers know if personal data, such as
Social Security numbers, are obtained by hackers.
… Cuomo
also signed a bill Thursday that requires credit reporting agencies
to provide identify theft prevention services to consumers when their
data is exposed during a breach.
Leaders
like this explain at lot about CBP.
Top
CBP Officer Testifies He’s Unsure if 3-Year-Old Is “a Criminal or
a National Security Threat”
One
of the country’s top border officers cannot say whether a
3-year-old child might pose a “criminal or national security
threat.”
Worth
reading.
The
Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
The
Internet of Things (IoT) has been near the top of the technology-hype
lists for years. In 2018, Gartner’s
Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies ranked
IoT platforms as cresting the “peak of inflated expectations”
stage and ready to tumble into the dreaded “trough of
disillusionment,” like a barrel careening over Niagara Falls.
Modern
English writing.
Is
the Internet Making Writing Better?
A
new book argues that our richest, most eloquent language is found
online.
A common refrain from writers on Twitter is that
writing is hard.
Often, this insight is accompanied by the rueful observation that
tweeting is easy.
This is, of course, the difference between informal and formal
expression, between language that serves as a loose and intuitive
vehicle for thought and language into which one must wrestle one’s
thought like a parent forcing his squirming kid into a car seat.
We’ve long had both formal and informal modes of speech.
The first pours from political orators; the second winds around
friends at a bar. But, as the linguist Gretchen McCulloch reveals in
“Because
Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language,” her
effervescent study of how the digital world is transfiguring English,
informal writing is relatively new. Most writing used to be
regulated (or self-regulated); there were postcards and diary
entries, but even those had standards. It’s only with the rise of
the Internet that a truly casual, willfully ephemeral prose has
ascended—and become central to daily life.
I’m an “opinionated old guy,” just not this
one.
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