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, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Or so says Christopher Wray, the current director of the FBI, testifying before a Congressional committee. My guess, having talked to my share of FBI agents, including today, is that he is correct. The basic premise of all police work is that the number of crimes is relatively small. No so with cyber. Also, it […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
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