As my son likes to say, nothing it bulletproof – it all depends on the size of the bullet. Likewise, nothing is 100% secure (except the computer that has never been taken out of the box) but your actions can improve the odds dramatically. Here are some recommendations from Dark Reading. Most people will pick […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well maybe not concerned enough to change their practices, but concerned. When asked if their data is more secure, less secure or about the same as compared to five years ago, 70 percent said their data was less secure. 6 percent said it was more secure. On the side of “gee, you mean I have […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]No, not literally, but close. Researchers investigated 81 Internet of Things (IoT) devices like smart TVs or security cameras. The researchers ran 34,000+ experiments and found that 72 of those devices contacted someone other than the manufacturer. For example, almost all of the TVs contacted Netflix, even if you don’t have a Netflix account. For […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is not directly a security issue. Or a privacy issue. Because the County did not get hacked. BUT it still is important to businesses. And governments. Juries are no longer sitting back and allowing organizations to ignore basic privacy law without consequences. In this case it is Bucks County, Pennsylvania (population about 650,000), and […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Well, we certainly DO live in interesting times. The UK is supposed to leave the EU at the end of March, but no one knows if they will, if there will be a deal, if they will delay Brexit, if they will have another vote. The European Data Protection Supervisor says do not expect anything […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]GDPR Gone Crazy I think we’re gonna need a bigger boat! According to the European Commission, Europe’s data protection regulators received more than 95,000 complaints about possible data breaches in the first 8 months of GDPR. At the same time businesses reported over 41,000 breaches. But regulators only opened 255 investigations. Many of the complaints […]
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