AgentRun is a startup that helps independent insurance agents and brokers manage customer relationships (CRM) and they are the latest company to do the perp walk for leaving an Amazon storage bucket unprotected. Compromised were thousands of client’s sensitive data files like insurance policy documents, health data, medical data, social security and medicare cards, blank […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Amazon is selling facial recognition technology that it has developed – called Rekognition – to law enforcement agencies and maybe others – Amazon won’t say. While there is nothing illegal about this and if Amazon doesn’t do it, others likely would, it certainly raises privacy concerns. Two police departments that are known to have purchased […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Remember a few weeks ago when Amazon said they had a solution to packages being stolen off people’s porches? It involved a remote control door lock and a security camera. Many people – not just security people – winced at the idea. After all, what could possibly go wrong? Well just a couple of weeks […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Last week I wrote about an incident with a vendor to the City of Chicago who left close to two million voter records exposed on Amazon and how the vendor, in spite of the initial mistake of exposing the data, handled the breach very well (see blog post). Today we have another case and, this […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Do you have a written incident response program? Do the people who are part of it – the outside legal team, crisis communications team, forensics team, for example – know they are part of it? Are contracts signed with outside service providers – or at least providers periodically reviewed and selected vendor already approved? Has […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Different sources are reporting different numbers, but the personal information on between 6 million and 14 million Verizon Wireless customers has been exposed. The information includes name, address, phone number, general information on calls made to customer service and, in some cases, the user’s security PIN. The details of this are going to sound all […]
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