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. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]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 […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is step one of a multi-part series on complying with the new privacy rules, both in Europe and, just recently, in California. Watch for further steps over the next several weeks. While companies are supposed to be compliant with GDPR already, many are not and the California law’s effective date is still almost 18 […]
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