This is one of my pet peeves. And this is not a mom & pop shop that does have the resources. Just bad management. The owner of CBS (yes, that CBS) and Paramount, National Amusements, disclosed a breach last week. Again, we are hearing about it from the Maine AG’s web site, not from them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Joe Sullivan, Convicted Former Uber CISO, Speaks Out Sullivan spoke at Black Hat Europe. Unfortunately, he did not say much directly about the case because he is appealing it, but he did have some interesting thoughts about where CISOs are headed and what you should or should not do. I didn’t know this but he […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]FTC Votes UNANIMOUSLY to Enforce Right to Repair As companies like John Deere and Apple fight to keep their exceptionally lucrative repair business to themselves, the Federal Trade Commission voted unanimously this week to enforce laws around right to repair. While this won’t eliminate all the barriers to users fixing stuff that they paid thousands […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]You might think this is obvious, but just in case it is not, California wants to make this clear. It used to be, in California, that if you had sensitive data encrypted and that data was stolen, you didn’t have to tell people because, after all, it was encrypted. But there is a rub with […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As more and more breaches happen every month, businesses everywhere need to consider what would happen if their company had a breach. Here is advice from the national law firm of Perkins Coie. Is the breach reportable? The list of data items which, when compromised, triggers a reportable breach keeps growing. For example, this year Illinois […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Compliance is one of those challenges for companies big and small. One of those compliance requirements is to keep abreast of changes to or new laws that apply to your organization. While we don’t offer legal advice, when we see items related to compliance, we will bring them to your attention. In the case of […]
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