I don’t think that Allstate is a whole lot different than other insurance companies; maybe they are just being more open about it. Allstate has announced a new company called Arity, who’s job it is to sell your data. Insurance companies have a lot of data and creating more every day. One part of the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sage Group, an international cloud based accounting, payroll, HR and CRM services company acknowledged a breach this week. The breach affects around 300 companies based in the U.K. but the value of the breach is not in who got breached, but rather the lessons to be learned from it. The company provides accounting and payroll […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]So far this week (and it is only Monday), we have two POS breaches in the news. HEI Hotels and Resorts, which manages almost 60 hotels for Starwood, Hilton, Marriott and other chains announced that 20 of their locations, covering all of their brands, had suffered breaches. While they have not said how many cards […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It was really only a matter of time. As the FBI (but interestingly NOT the CIA or NSA) keeps pressing for a crypto backdoor – or whatever they would prefer to call it to make it seem more palatable – and security experts keep saying this is a really, REALLY bad idea, the universe decided […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google is starting to roll out new security messages in the next week or so to help users to be able to detect spam emails and malicious web sites. For GMail read on the web or on Android devices, any message whose sender cannot be authenticated with Sender Policy Framework (SPF) or Domain Keys Identified Mail […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Knowstartup.com came up with a list of suggestions for startups in the arena of data security and privacy, but after reading it, the list is applicable to anyone, so here is my take on it: Allowing security to take a back seat (from the very beginning). Whether it is your beginning or not, sometimes companies […]
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