I have written about the troubles of Cottage Health System in California. They were breached and the protected Health Information of at least 32,000 patients was compromised. The situation was that they had outsourced the storage of patient records to InSync, which by itself is not a problem, but InSync made this data available on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The British shipping company Clarksons was hacked and decided not to pay the ransom. So far, nothing new. No ransom, no data. Well, maybe, they had backups that they could restore – and thumb their nose at the hackers. I think this is becoming a bigger problem for hackers. As a result, hackers are changing […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Senator Bill Nelson of Florida has introduced a bill as a result of the Uber disclosure that they forgot to tell 57 million people that their data was breached – for a year – that allows for penalties of up to five years in prison for anyone, such as company executives, who willfully conceals a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Max Schrems – the same Max Schrems that battled Facebook and won and the same Max Schrems that got the Court of Justice of the European Union to strike down Safe Harbor – that Max Schrems – has a new mission. The General Data Protection Regulation, the new privacy law that takes effect in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This may turn out to be a lesson in Internet law for everyone. In October 2016, hackers breached Uber’s systems and made off with personal information for 57 million customers. They also made off with other information for 7 million Uber drivers and 600,000 drivers license numbers. Uber says that no socials or credit cards […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have long complained about ads on web sites delivering malicious content in addition to ads. In fact, I have even advocated blocking ads because of it, but since most web sites exist because of the revenue generated from those ads, the ad content is only getting more invasive. There have been many incidents of […]
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