The 12 biggest hacks, breaches, and security threats of 2017
Security issues took a turn for the serious in 2017. This time around we still suffered the password breaches, malware […]
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Do Your Records Put Your Business at Risk?
When it comes to record management and customer notifications, the legal requirements for businesses are vastly different from state-to-state. Source: […]
Do you really know what your IT services vendor is providing to secure your systems?
A small health care provider such as a physician office or clinic often will contract with an IT services vendor […]
Security Education in Uncertain Times: 2017 in Review
It doesn’t work to drop into a roomful of people you’ve never met before and have no connection to, spend […]
Employer liable for disgruntled employee’s deliberate data breach
WM Morrisons Supermarket plc have been held liable to 5,518 of their employees for a deliberate data breach by a […]
Clarification from Working Party 29 on Key Breach Notification Terms
Areas for clarification under Article 29 Working Party (WP29)’s guidance on personal data breach notifications to supervisory authorities and data […]
Aadhaar data leak: More than 200 Indian government websites expose citizens’ key personal details
The Aadhaar-issuing body, called the Unique Identification Authority of India, did not specify how or when the breach took place. […]
Parker chatbot can tell you if you need to report a data breach
Law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has used IBM’s Watson artificial intelligence platform to create a chatbot that can help businesses […]
Consumer injury and the challenge of IoT data security
The FTC is hosting a workshop on “informational injury,” asking about the “qualitatively different types of injuries” consumers experience “from […]
Imgur confirms 1.7 million users hit by data breach
Image-sharing website Imgur has confirmed that the emails and passwords of 1.7 million users were compromised in 2014. Source: Imgur […]
How does your privacy program measure up?
As the calendar year comes to a close, many of us in the privacy field find ourselves tending to year-end […]
Hacker pleads guilty to huge Yahoo hack, admits helping Russia’s FSB
Three fellow co-defendants remain at large in Russia, unlikely to be extradited. Source: Hacker pleads guilty to huge Yahoo hack, […]