As I said last night in the article about the European Court of Justice, every national intelligence agency that has the ability to do so is vacuuming data from the Internet. The Intercept wrote a very detailed article analyzing some new documents from the Edward Snowden document dump. The article links to the original documents […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The SEC and Investment Adviser R.T. Jones (RTJ) came to an agreement last week regarding a breach that RTJ had. R.T. Jones, an investment advisor in St. Louis with about 8,000 clients, has agreements with retirement plan administrators to offer investment advice to participants in those plans via the web. To log in to the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of you (all 3 of you) who follow European privacy law, you can skip this post. The rest may find it interesting. Max Schrems, who was an Austrian law student and now a lawyer has been battling Facebook in particular and claiming that they are violating E.U. law by their various privacy policies. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]There is a lot of ink (digital ink that is) being spilled on the topic of ad supported content. The basic theory is that ad supported content allows you the reader to get a lot of content without having to shell out cash. Notice that I didn’t say the content is free. It is not. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Databreaches is reporting that someone discovered a large amount of data on a public segment of Amazon Web Services. This person, described as a technology enthusiast (i.e. a geek) downloaded some of this data and discovered it contained medical claims data. The repository, which supposedly contained gigabytes of data was later identified to belong to […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Krebs On Security has extensive reporting of an investigation by Verizon conducted starting a few days after the Target breach was announced. Target has refused to confirm or deny the report . One thing to consider. We do not know how Brian (Krebs) got the report, so all we can do is speculate. This report, in […]
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