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Security news for the Week Ending May 24, 2019

SalesForce Gives Users Access To All of Your Company’s Data In what can only be called an Oops, SalesForce deployed a script last Friday that gave users of certain parts of SalesForce access to all of the data that a company had on the system.  The good news is that it didn’t show you anyone […]

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Hidden Cameras in Your Vacation Rental or Hotel Room?!

After you are done gasping — it is not a far fetched scenario, at least for vacation rentals.  There have been many stories of AirBnB rentals having surveillance cameras – even though their agreement requires that they be disclosed if present. When it comes to hotels, it is much more likely that those cameras were […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending March 22, 2019

If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on Apple is launching a major ad campaign to run during March Madness with the tagline “If privacy matters in your life, it should matter to the phone your life is on.  Privacy.  That’s iPhone“. Since Apple’s business model is […]

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Not a Great Day for One Law Firm, Its Vendor and its Clients

I wrote a while back about hackers that had compromised a law firm and its customer Hiscox insurance – or said differently Hiscox and its vendor.  The law firm was handling claims related to 9/11 (almost 20 years later and still litigating!). A lot of law firms (certainly not all) have not figured out that […]

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What is YOUR Level of Paranoia?

A Houston lawyer is suing Apple alleging that Apple’s Facetime bug (still not fixed) that allowed people to eavesdrop even if you do not answer the call, allowed a private deposition to be recorded. If you are among the geek crowd you probably know that the most paranoid person around, Edward Snowden, required reporters to […]

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Facebook 0, Apple 1; Google is Collateral Damage

You would think that in light of all of the negative publicity that Facebook has had, it would reign in some of it’s badder practices, but maybe they are just daring Congress to regulate them. Facebook created a VPN product called Onavo Protect.  The public claim was that it was designed to protect your traffic, […]

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