Security Breach and Spilled Secrets Have Shaken the N.S.A. to Its Core
A serial leak of the agency’s cyberweapons has damaged morale, slowed intelligence operations and resulted in hacking attacks on businesses […]
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TSA Plans to Use Face Recognition to Track Americans Through Airports
The “PreCheck” program is billed as a convenient service to allow U.S. travelers to “ speed through security ” at […]
Moving Beyond Passwords – Does Your Face Raise Privacy Concerns?
Phishing attacks continue to be the root cause of a considerable number of data breaches. Typically, these incidents occur when […]
Facebook: upload your nudes to stop revenge porn
Facebook wants you to stop worrying about your nudes being shared without your consent like that. It wants you to […]
This solution allows businesses to use, but never hold, personal data
While companies need personal information in order to provide a valuable product, possessing large amounts of data carries an equal […]
Companies ignorant about data protection in the cloud
The level of ignorance within industry about data protection laws has been underlined by a survey that found nearly three-fourths […]
Four Steps for Privacy Professionals to Get Security Savvy
As more CPOs need to interact with security, they need the right skills to integrate security into the privacy strategy […]
Woman Says Her Identity Has Been Stolen 15 Times Since Equifax Data Breach
“I want to share my story and make people aware that this can happen to anybody.” Source: Seattle Woman Says […]
Discovery of New Internet of Things (IoT) Based Malware Could Put a New Spin on DDoS Attacks
Slightly over one year ago, several major distributed denial-of-service (“DDoS”) attacks took place, including a major event affecting the domain […]
Data Breaches Rose By 164% in First Half Of 2017
Companies have seen a “staggering” increase in data breaches, according to a study by Gemalto. Source: Data Breaches Rose By […]
Should companies be able to ‘hack back’?
Hacking is pervasive and a source of anxiety for nearly every company. Hacked companies facing financial and reputational harm, and […]
Assessing the threat the IoT botnet poses to the Internet
Whatever the threat posed by the new IoT botnet, a worse one has lurked for months. Source: Assessing the threat […]