It was reported across the media late last month that the Hilton Hotel chain had a credit card breach. While some media is reporting that the dates of the attack are from April 21 to July 27 of this year, Brian Krebs is reporting that sources are telling him that the breach may go as […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Article 29 Working Party (WP29), the group that is responsible for dealing with the fallout from the European Court of Justice invalidation of the Safe Harbor Agreement, met for the first time since the decision to start sorting things out. For companies moving data between the U.S. and the E.U., there were some good things […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Today, The Intercept published a series of articles on the U.S. “drone wars”. The drone wars are the efforts by the U.S. to find and kill terrorists where ever they may be on the planet. Drones are far more effective and put less American lives at risk than conducting war and spying “the old fashioned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The New York Stock Exchange, in partnership with Palo Alto Networks, 40+ authors and The Security Roundtable, have published a free eBook entitled Navigating The Digital Age: The Definitive Cybersecurity Guide for Directors and Officers. While some might argue about the hyperbole surrounding calling it THE DEFINITIVE GUIDE, it does provide a lot of information […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Businesses have long complained about complying with 46 different cybersecurity/privacy laws (plus the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands) and the lack of a national privacy law. Alabama, Kentucky, New Mexico and South Dakota are the only states without such laws. The states have fired back saying that a national […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As if complying with 47 states individual laws on breaches wasn’t complicated enough, if you are a defense contractor, you now have to comply with DoD rules on disclosing breaches. I suspect that part of this is due to the fact that the DoD thinks that many of the state laws are too loose and […]
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