The feds have upped the game and are going after companies that get breached that do not have effective cybersecurity programs. In this case, practice management software vendor Professional Business Systems, Inc. The company, who does business under the name Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions failed to install a firewall patch in January 2019. That failure […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]RICO is a dragnet law which can subject people and companies to very serious penalties and jail time. This is an extension of the negligence class-actions that use the principles of the Caremark Standard to go after companies with inadequate cybersecurity programs. This is a shift away from the lawsuits the claim that “my social […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Privacy litigation is a new way for attorneys to make money. Based on the number and types of cases, they think they can make a lot of it. Some examples: Clearly lawyers are checking out the landscape here. Some types of claims will just go away if no one wins the cases. Others may be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Google Adds Dark Web Monitoring to GMail Users A feature that used to be available to paid Google One subscribers will soon be available to all GMail users. Dark web monitoring tells you if your GMail email address is found on the dark web (hint: almost all of them are due to thousands of data […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Uber breach saga continues. Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former CISO, was convicted of lying to the feds about a breach that happened in 2016. Hackers broke in to Uber and stole data on 57 million customers and 600,000 drivers. One of the counts he was convicted of was hiding the 2016 breach from the feds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Businesses buy insurance and then they expect the insurance company to pay when they make a claim. Sometimes that happens but when it comes to cyber insurance, too often it does not. But, there are things you can do to improve your odds. First, make sure everyone understands all of the security requirements of your […]
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