The New York Privacy Act was introduced last month. Like California’s CCPA, it gives consumers more power over their data, but in addition to that, it would require companies to put their customer’s privacy before their own interests. I am sure that there will be a huge lobbying effort by special interests. While the sponsor is still […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]And it continues to be a major issue for some reason. This week researchers found 85 gigabytes of security log data (talk about a nightmare for a business to expose that) in an elastic search database. The server was discovered on May 27th and the data goes back to April 19th, so that might be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.S. Trains UAE Spies to Spy on Americans Reuters has written an expose on how the State Department granted a U.S. Company an ITAR license to train UAE spies on hacking. The plan, which got out of control, what to constraint the UAE spies, but once they were trained, they fired their U.S. trainers and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week, I wrote about the Wipro hack (if you didn’t see that post, click on the search box and enter Wipro). While Wipro is being pretty close-mouthed about what happened due to the inevitable lawsuits, SLA complaints and even claims of breached contracts, it isn’t stopping the media from reporting on it. In fact, […]
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