california privacy

California passes sweeping privacy law

Governor Jerry Brown signed the California Consumer Privacy Act into law this week, scheduled to take effect January 2020. The law is a diluted...
Personal data theft

Exactis Knows Everything about You and They Just Got Breached

If the reports are accurate, a Florida-based marketing and data company exposed sensitive personal data belonging to 340 million records. The gravity of the...
data breach

Why the Ticketmaster UK Breach Could Happen to Your Organization

Event ticketing giant Ticketmaster UK experienced an ongoing data breach affecting 40,000 people over the last several months, many of whom have since fallen...

Millions of Smartphones Hosting Hacker Bots

Hackers may be in your phone right now (or your tablet). Think it’s not possible because your connected device is performing well? Think again....
data leak

Facebook accidentally leaks app data

If Facebook’s ongoing privacy woes become any more regular, clocks may soon become obsolete. This week’s (first?) news about the increasingly leak-prone company (or increasingly...
cyber insurance

South Carolina’s Insurance Cybersecurity Law Takes Effect in 2019

South Carolina became the first state to pass a law requiring all insurance entities to create and maintain a cybersecurity and data breach response...
Chinese hackers

Chinese Hacking Group Attacks Satellite Systems

A Chinese hacking group called Thrip has begun a campaign to hack satellite, defense, and communications companies in the United States and Southeast Asia,...
Google IoT Leak

Google IoT Devices Leak Your Location

Two of Google’s most widely sold IoT devices have a privacy problem that makes it possible for hackers to pinpoint their location. Security experts...
Security policy

How a Security Policy Could Cause the Next Killer Hack

A major security flaw called CVE-2018-8897 was identified earlier this year in operating systems running Intel processors, which affected Microsoft, Apple, and Linux distributions. While you may not...

Zuckerberg’s Choice: Privacy or Politics

The cyber world, much like the real one, is filled with trade-offs and compromises. For instance, a VPN (virtual private network) may offer more...