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The Challenge With Cloud Apps – Unsecured Databases

In an example of dozens of known breaches and likely thousands of similar situations which never get reported, security researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered a non-password protected, unsecured (sort of redundant) database containing 38.6 million records belonging to legal support services company Rapid Legal. The information left exposed included court documents, service agreements and payment information […]

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Airbnb Cares About Profit – Not Protecting You

CNN published an explosive expose on how Airbnb fails to protect guests from hidden cameras. In a lawsuit brought by a victim whose vacation turned into a nightmare, a women was secretly recorded undressing at an Airbnb property, her images were stored on a computer belonging to an (alleged) sexual predator. The predator is accused […]

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What is the Impact on The Supreme’s Chevron Decision on Cybersecurity?

Let me give you the answer up front – we won’t know the full extent of it for years. Okay, first what is Chevron? In the last days of this year’s Supreme Court term, the court issued a ruling that says that the forty year old Supreme Court ruling, Chevron, the court said that lower […]

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Why Do Data Breached Companies Think Shutting Reporters up Helps?

The Evolve Bank & Trust breach is getting uglier by the day. In fairness, it didn’t start out very pretty. A ransomware gang claimed they hacked the Federal Reserve and wanted millions in ransom. It turns out that they attacked Evolve and did, in fact, steal a bunch of data from them. Evolve had been […]

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