When GDPR first went into effect in May 2018, people talked about horror stories of fines to the tune of 4% of a company’s total global revenue. Then reality hit and there were no fines or tiny fines. Or so it seemed. The problem with regulators is that it always takes them a while. Legitimately, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]In the absence of the federal government doing anything useful when it comes to cybersecurity or privacy laws, the states are left to their own ways to implement a patchwork of laws. Here is what they are doing right now. The impact rating is my own. Illinois SB 1624 – This bill requires businesses that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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