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News Bites for the Week Ending October 19, 2018

Austria Issues First GDPR Fine; Has 115 Fine Proceeding In Q Austria has issued its first GDPR fine.  4,800 Euros for having a security camera that covers the sidewalk (a no-no) without warning people that they are under surveillance.  Welcome to GDPR.  In the first 100 days of GDPR,  they have 115 fine proceedings in […]

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Facebook Hack Compromises 50 Million

Ancient Chinese Proverb: May You Live In Interesting Times. Well welcome to interesting times. Today, Facebook said that the accounts of 50 million users were compromised. The hackers compromised the security “tokens” that Facebook uses to authenticate users and not the passwords themselves.  Facebook revoked those users “tokens” to stop them from continuing to be used. […]

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Security News Bites for the Week Ending Sep 7, 2018

China Using Fake Linkedin Profiles to Recruit Americans as Spies US intelligence officials are warning LinkedIn users that China is being “super aggressive” at recruiting Americans with access to government and commeACrcial secrets. The Chinese are creating fake LinkedIn profiles, friending people and trolling to see if they would be valuable if flipped or conned […]

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Security News for the Week Ending Friday August 10, 2018

Lack of Vendor Cyber Risk Management Hurts over 750 Banks TCM Bank, a company that helps hundreds of small banks issue credit cards had a problem with their third party vendor – the bank’s fourth party vendor risk. The small bank wants to issue credit cards so they hire TCM and TCM hires someone else […]

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Complying with GDPR and California’s CCPA – Step 3

For those companies who have customers in California – independent of where the company is located – or are doing business in Europe, you have new privacy regulations to deal with.  While California’s law doesn’t go into effect for another 16 months and it is possible that there will be changes to the law before […]

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Complying with GDPR and California’s CCPA – Step 2

Last week I started a series on steps to comply with both the E.U.’s General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR and California’s new privacy law, the California Consumer Protection Act or CCPA.  To find Step 1, go to this post: https://cybercecurity-mitch-tanenbaum-blog.com/complying-with-gdpr-and-californias-new-privacy-law-ccpa-step-1/  . This week, on to Step 2 – CREATE A VENDOR CYBER RISK MANAGEMENT PROGRAM […]

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