The Australian Red Cross recently apologized for losing control of 1.74 gigabytes of donor data. Included in the breach are name, address, email, phone number, date of birth and other information from blood donors. The data, 1.3 million records stored in 647 database tables is all the information the Australian Red Cross had on donors […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Some say that the insider threat is the most serious threat to a business and without debating whether one threat is worse than another, here is a great example of the insider threat and how not to deal with it. First, the story. Last month, three executives of the Denver Post resigned and formed an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Sorry, but I am not going to be very sympathetic to this law firm. Here is the story. A Rhode Island law firm, Moses Afonso Ryan, was hit with a ransomware attack. Apparently, the company did not have a plan for dealing with a ransomware attack. In general, if you have good backups and have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]One of the challenges to companies doing business online is that your customers may be scattered all over the country. While this is obviously good for business, it also means that you need to comply with state data breach laws for all states where you have customers because the law’s applicability is based on where […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I have said, in the past, how come the government doesn’t warn companies when they have intel that the companies are targets of hackers? Well, we did get one data point on that after the DNC hack last year, but now we have more data points. As a reminder about what happened last year, the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Since we all know that misery loves company, it may bring some comfort that even Facebook and Google can fall victim to business email compromise scams. In one way, that makes perfect sense since the weak link is always people. On the other hand, you would think that big companies like Facebook and Google would […]
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