Hanna and Barbera lied to me…

100 years ago, when I was growing up and network television was alive and well with all three channels and one PBS channel and 3 local channels.  I watched cartoons (I still do, a lot of the same ones from my youth via DVD). One of my favorites was Yogi Bear. It...

Data Breaches

Did you know that 95% of breaches are due to human error?  I admit I was not surprised by this number.  What did surprise me was that 91% through e-mail, this was a bit of a shock. MyDoom did $38.4 billion in damage, there are also 4 million records are stolen from...

AI in use today

How many of you are using AI regularly?  Do you Alexia? Play chess online? How about Amazon shopping recommendations?  All utilize AI, so you have been using AI without even knowing it. Chat GPT newest iteration of AI. ChatGPT is a large language model-based chatbot...

Comprehensive cyber insurance policy

I was on a webinar regarding risk and the issue of a cyber insurance policy was given.  So, I contacted my agent to see what kind of coverage I had. Apparently, I only have an endorsement that is very limited in scope on my main package that covers data breach...

Unpaid Trust Taxes

What happens when you distribute Trust assets and don’t pay the taxes?  You guessed it… The IRS can go after heirs and trust beneficiaries for unpaid estate taxes. It doesn’t matter that they received property years after the decedent’s death, an appeals court...

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