Sometimes even if you try to be safe, it doesn’t work the way you want. Fiserv provides banking software to over a third of all banks. They have 24,000 employees and almost $6 billion in revenue. Many of its client banks are smaller banks and credit unions, but some large banks use Fiserv too. Apparently, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This could get interesting. The Australian Telecommunications and other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018 would require tech companies to decrypt communications on request and even require tech companies to build back doors into their software if they don’t already have them. Of course, like all governments (think GDPR), the bill does not stop […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Health IT Security wrote an article beating up Amazon on it’s HIPAA compliance process. The article was not favorable and also interesting. The issue that they are talking about was a medic-alert style bracelet that someone bought on Amazon. After this person bought it, the vendor put a picture of it, with the lady’s name, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]NSA Deleting All Call Detail Records (CDRs) Acquired Since 2015 While the NSA is not providing a lot of details about what went wrong, the NSA is saying that it is deleting all CDRs acquired since 2015 because of technical irregularities that resulted in it receiving data that, likely, would be illegal under the current […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]For some people, they don’t really care. For other people, it is a complete invasion of privacy. For both groups, it is happening every day. Apps sometimes ask for permission to read your mail. It could be to get rid of junk mail or clean your mailbox or many other reasons, but in all cases, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Supremes Say Warrant Required For Cell Data In a 5-4 decision last week, the Supremes said that the police should have gotten a search warrant before they asked for months worth of location data of a suspect. The suspect in a robbery case was tracked by the police – over 12,000 locations, over 127 […]
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