As has been the case for more than 10 years, California leads the way, for better or worse, for the rest of the country in protecting resident’s privacy. Their original breach law, SB 1386, is the model for laws for the rest of the country. So, what is new in 2015 – read on. If […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For those of us who are not insurance experts, the distinction may not be obvious. As explained in more detail here, the difference is in who experiences the loss. First party coverage covers damage to your business such as costs of notifying customers, purchasing credit monitoring services, repairing reputational damage or paying a cyber extortionist. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Tech Crunch has an interesting article on cyber security. The first part is tongue-in-cheek. All you need to do is disconnect from the internet, get rid of all your laptops and smartphones, use no cloud services and no mobile apps. You get the idea. All of the things that we know and love – and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]HR 4681, the Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2015 was signed into law on December 19th, 2014 and provides funding for the intelligence community until next September. The bill and now law contains one section – section 309 – that deals with the collection, retention and sharing of information collected by the intelligence community. Because […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I am certain we will see a number of people comment on what Sony shoulda/coulda/oughta have done and there is likely some truth in all of them. Here is one and my thoughts on it, from Data Breach Today. This is from a blog post by Matthew Schwartz. He makes 7 points, which I mostly […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Unlike the Sony breach in November, the group that took down Sony’s and Microsoft’s game network on Christmas (see article) seems to be very interested in getting attention. Hopefully enough so that the FBI finds them, but that is another story. What is more important is that the people who did this, according to Brian […]
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