Poland’s data protection regulator made an interesting decision affecting a Swedish based digital marketing company named Bisnode. Poland’s regulator, the national Personal Data Protection Office (UODO in Polish), fined Bisnode 220,000 Euros for failing to comply with Article 14 of GDPR. Article 14 requires a data controller to inform a person when it collects data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We’re From the Government and WE’RE HERE TO HELP YOU! Well, not really. We don’t have to worry about the gov being hacked. They just give our information away. At least in this case there is no hard evidence that the data was misused. FEMA hired a contractor to help it find temporary housing for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is an interesting combination of countries. Multi-billion dollar Taiwan based computer make Asus makes a wide range of computers sold worldwide. Russian anti-virus maker Kaspersky, whom the White House says is a threat to national security and should be banned (which I basically think is mostly true), identified that hackers attacked Asus’s software update […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Seems like Facebook can’t catch a break. Whether it is Cambridge Analytica or one of the many other scandals plaguing the company, it seems like the only news coverage they get is bad coverage. This time it is information that Facebook logged users’ passwords in plain text for anyone to read, stored those logs on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Jackson County Pays $400,000 in Ransomware Following a ransomware attack on March 1st, 2019, Jackson County, Georgia decided to pay hackers a ransom of $400,000. The county population is 67,000 according to Google. While hackers may not be explicitly targeting these small municipalities, they may be. After all, small municipalities likely have poor cybersecurity practices […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Commerce Department Wants Companies to Publish Ingredients of their Software The Commerce Department is trolling around the RSA conference trying to get companies to publish the ingredients in their software – the so called bill of materials that I have written about before – so that users can understand what libraries are being loaded. The […]
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