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AOL's New Privacy Policy More of a No-Privacy Policy
As MediaPost reports, AOL's recent changes to its privacy policy highlight how important it is for small-business owners to inform their customers about changes to their data collection, advertising,...
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Background Check Firm that Cleared Edward Snowden Suffers Data Breach
According to the Washington Post, USIS – the background check company that botched Edward Snowden's screening process – was in the midst of one of its worst years when it found out that it had been the...
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Security Is Everyone's Job: Lessons from a Weak-Password Hack
Prairie Business Magazine reports on the data breach at the North Dakota University System that exposed almost 300,000 users' data. In addition to the sheer size of the breach, what makes it remarkable...
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Dairy Queen's Data Leaked Like Ice Cream from a Cone on a Hot Day
As a last hurrah before summer fades, hackers got a taste for ice cream and decided to attack the summertime staple Dairy Queen. We're only partially kidding.In the winter, we saw hackers go after...
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Netflix: Use Our Hack-Scanning Software
Though it might be most famous its binge-watch streaming service, Netflix has produced open source tools that can protect businesses from data breaches and DDoS attacks.According to The Register,...
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Nude Photo Leak Raises Question of What a Data Breach Is
While the hacking of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and other celebrities' iCloud accounts has produced endless commentary, there's a big issue that IT professionals should be paying attention to: what...
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New Cold War Being Played Out in World of Data Breaches
The New York Times reports that Home Depot's data breach could affect 60 million users – 20 million more than the Target attack – which brings up new questions about the nature of these attacks.The...
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Will There Be Unforeseen Security Issues with Apple Pay?
As news swirls that Dairy Queen and Home Depot's point-of-sale systems were hacked, Apple has announced its new mobile payment service, “Apple Pay,” claiming that it will replace outdated credit card...
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Home Depot Data Breach Lawsuit Raises Question: What Are "Reasonable"...
According Insurance Journal, only one day after Home Depot acknowledged that a data breach had exposed millions of its customers' credit and debit card information, a customer had already filed a...
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The Latest Oxymoron: Android Security
Maybe you weren't surprised when researchers at the University of New Haven posted a series of videos showing that many common Android apps contained serious data privacy flaws that could allow cyber...
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Can Insurance Protect Digital Assets?
Many of our clients wonder whether digital assets, such as data, digital media, and other intangibles, are covered by insurance. The answer to that question – like many things in the insurance world –...
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Adobe Update Part 2: A Look at Professional Liability for Software Developers
The backstory behind Adobe's latest patch shows hazards that all software and app developers face. According to a ThreatPost article, Adobe was about to release updates to its Reader and Acrobat...
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Privacy Policy, No Cloud Storage for Apple's Fitness Apps
While the tech media was intrigued by wearable technology and the growth of fitness and health apps, many savvy IT minds had serious doubts about how these devices would secure the massive amount of...
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Antique Data Netting Canadian Man Thousands (So He Says)
This has been a huge year for data breach news – some of it was the "strange but true" variety. For example, take the recent story posted on Sophos's data security site Naked Security. Apparently, one...
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FBI Reports More Data Breaches from Disgruntled Employees
Last week, the FBI issued a cyber security warning, stating there’s been an increase in data breaches caused by disgruntled employees on or around the time they left their employer. Employees were...
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Snapchat Leak Offers Liability Lessons for App Developers
The Washington Post reports that 13GB of "snaps" (Snapchat photos) have been leaked online on the hacker forum 4chan. A flaw in a third-party app that lets users save the otherwise temporary messages...
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The Free Security Tool Your Clients Probably Aren't Using
As IT security blogger Brian Krebs reports, last week saw a wave of critical security updates to Microsoft Windows, Java, and two Adobe programs.Your clients might not realize that by delaying an...
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Phishing by the Dock of eBay
CIO Today reports eBay was hacked…again. Over the summer, nearly 145 million passwords were exposed, but this time hackers used a different approach to harvest data.Because eBay allows JavaScript and...
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This Is What We Mean by "Reputational Damage"
Last week, a group of retailers known as MCX (Merchant Customer Exchange) made news when two members – CVS and Rite Aid – ditched their plan to use Apple Pay in favor of MCX's own mobile payment...
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The Least Fun Way to Spend that Extra $9,000
As an IT professional, you've undoubtedly worked with clients who won't commit an adequate amount of resources to data security. Many small-business owners simply don't think it's worth the extra money...
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