DEA and ICE buying Surveillance Cameras Hidden in Streetlights I am not particularly surprised and it certainly is not illegal in any way, but apparently DEA and ICE have purchased $50,000 of security cameras that record video and sound, hidden in streetlights. If $50,000 is what they spent, it would cover a small number of […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Score One For Amazon Security! People who have read my blog for a while know that I am a big fan of two factor authentication. That little bit of extra security usually gets thrown out the window if you call in to customer service instead of logging in to the company’s web site. Two factor […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Follow on to Google+ Breach and Notification I recently reported about Google getting in trouble for hiding a breach discovered in March. The first thing to point out is that it is unlikely that Google broke any laws. The current breach notifications laws in the U.S. give a company the wiggle room not to disclose […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Poorly Secured Family of Adult Web Sites Leak Account Info For those people who can think back to the hack of the Ashley Madison web site, this is kind of deja vu all over again. 100 megabytes of user authentication data was leaked – user names, IP addresses, passwords and email addresses. Not THE most […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Austria Issues First GDPR Fine; Has 115 Fine Proceeding In Q Austria has issued its first GDPR fine. 4,800 Euros for having a security camera that covers the sidewalk (a no-no) without warning people that they are under surveillance. Welcome to GDPR. In the first 100 days of GDPR, they have 115 fine proceedings in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Data Aggregator Apollo Loses Data on 200 Million Apollo’s business model is to aggregate both publicly available data and company private data to build profiles used to market to people. Apollo’s 212 million contacts, 10 million companies and 9 billion data points are now public. In addition to names and email addresses, the company also […]
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