UPDATE: EU Commissioner for Justice made statements just before the agreement was approved indicating that not everyone has signed up for this agreement. Read Commissioner For Justice Vera Jourova’s comments here. While the US and EU did not meet their targeted deadline of January 31st for coming up with a a replacement for Safe Harbor, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]A couple of years ago the Supreme Court ruled that the government needed a warrant to attach a GPS to a suspect’s vehicle. So the police had to come up with a different plan. Enter plan B. Vigilant Corporation, a private entity, has thousands of cameras in cities around the country. They have taken an […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It appears that Wendy’s may be the most recent company to get their point of sale system hacked and have customer credit card data compromised. At this point, Wendy’s has ONLY said that it is currently investigating reports of unusual activity involving payment cards used at some of its locations. BUT, if it quacks like […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the self imposed (by the E.U.) deadline (for coming up with a replacement for Safe harbor) of January 31st looms near, we don’t really know what is going to happen. My guess is not much, but stay tuned. The background is that when the European Court Of Justice struck down Safe Harbor last year, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Examiner reported about 4 health care data breaches on the 20th. See if you can find a common element. Information on 21,000 California Blue Shield customers, including health care info, was compromised when a vendor call center employee was socially engineered, their login information compromised and their customer data stolen. Last week Montana’s New […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As the folk music group Peter, Paul and Mary wrote in 1962 – about a completely different subject – When Will They Ever Learn? It appears that, for software companies, the answer is a big question mark. First Juniper got caught with a hard coded back door of unknown origins in their routers and firewalls. Then Cisco […]
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