The feds have upped the game and are going after companies that get breached that do not have effective cybersecurity programs. In this case, practice management software vendor Professional Business Systems, Inc. The company, who does business under the name Practicefirst Medical Management Solutions failed to install a firewall patch in January 2019. That failure […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]RICO is a dragnet law which can subject people and companies to very serious penalties and jail time. This is an extension of the negligence class-actions that use the principles of the Caremark Standard to go after companies with inadequate cybersecurity programs. This is a shift away from the lawsuits the claim that “my social […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Privacy litigation is a new way for attorneys to make money. Based on the number and types of cases, they think they can make a lot of it. Some examples: Clearly lawyers are checking out the landscape here. Some types of claims will just go away if no one wins the cases. Others may be […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We are back to pandemic level cyber fear. Security firm Proofpoint says that compared to last year, CISOs are feeling less prepared to cope with cyberattacks and more at risk. Threats are always increasing, data is being ripped off in more ways than we can count, cybersecurity budgets are not what they need to be, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Uber breach saga continues. Joe Sullivan, Uber’s former CISO, was convicted of lying to the feds about a breach that happened in 2016. Hackers broke in to Uber and stole data on 57 million customers and 600,000 drivers. One of the counts he was convicted of was hiding the 2016 breach from the feds […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]
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