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$67 Million Jury Verdict for Violating People’s Privacy

This is not directly a security issue.  Or a privacy issue. Because the County did not get hacked. BUT it still is important to businesses.  And governments. Juries are no longer sitting back and allowing organizations to ignore basic privacy law without consequences. In this case it is Bucks County, Pennsylvania (population about 650,000), and […]

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Security news for the Week Ending May 24, 2019

SalesForce Gives Users Access To All of Your Company’s Data In what can only be called an Oops, SalesForce deployed a script last Friday that gave users of certain parts of SalesForce access to all of the data that a company had on the system.  The good news is that it didn’t show you anyone […]

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Over 90 Percent of IoT Data Transactions Are Not Encrypted

According to a report released by  cloud security vendor Zscaler, 91% of the traffic that they saw coming through their network security devices from IoT “things” was NOT encrypted. This is on enterprise networks where one might think that security is more important, so maybe the number is even higher on home networks, although it […]

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Security News for the Week Ending May 17, 2019

Be Thankful That You Are Not Equifax – Costs Reach $1.4 Billion So Far Two years after the big breach, Equifax reported financials for the first quarter.   They reported a loss of $555.9 million compared to a net income of $90 million for the same period in 2018 on basically flat revenue. Equifax had $125 […]

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