A friend tweeted to me tonight: .@PogoWasRight you have been beating this drum and saying this for a long time now… years. “report reveals they are instead ‘frequently ignored or misunderstood”. Now u have a report! 😉https://t.co/WYu94gQQfu — Commissioner Miner (@fanCRTCProfling) January 19, 2018 Indeed we do. Carly Page reports: One in four ethical hackers…
Category: Commentaries and Analyses
New data breach reporting rules will help prevent cyber crime, say IT experts
Peter Dinham reports: A majority of Australian IT decision-makers believe reporting of data breaches to regulators will help prevent cyber crime. Surveyed by global security vendor Palo Alto Networks, 79% of IT decision-makers agreed that reporting breaches to regulators should be mandatory and 69% believed reporting of data breaches to regulators would help prevent cyber…
FTC: Privacy & Data Security Update: 2017
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has released its Privacy & Data Security Update: 2017. The report is organized by major privacy enforcement actions in 2017, data security enforcement in 2017, and other topics of significant concern such as fair credit reporting, children’s online privacy and do not call. Apart from the Lenovo, Uber, and D-Link…
Aetna Customers Get $17 Million In HIV Privacy settlement
WTVA reports: After thousands of customers’ HIV statuses were revealed in mailings last year, a federal class-action lawsuit against health care company Aetna has reached a $17 million settlement. The lawsuit was filed in August after some 12,000 Aetna customers nationwide received letters mailed in July that accidentally revealed their HIV status through the windows…
China’s cyber watchdog scolds Ant Financial over user privacy breach
Reuters reports: Jan. 10 – China’s cyber watchdog has scolded Ant Financial, Alibaba’s payment affiliate, for compromising user privacy after many users of its Alipay service were automatically enrolled in its credit scoring system. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said in a statement it had summoned Ant Financial representatives to a meeting last Saturday…
Cybersecurity firm, cybersecure thyself?
Cue Peter, Paul, and Mary singing, “When will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn? Oh, when will they ever learn?” The best place to store your private keys of your production environment is probably NOT a public Amazon AWS S3 bucket. This is a top 500 “Cybersecurity” company btw. 🙂 pic.twitter.com/8Vu7mGpwox —…