At a Senate hearing on cyberinsurance regarding notice to cyber victims there was testimony about a uniform federal cybersecurity breach law to replace the laws in 47 states which could help by having a uniform standard could “reduce the cost of breach responses and enhance consumer protection.” The Senate Commerce…
Continue Reading 47 State Cybersecurity Breach Laws May be Replaced by Federal Law
Recently there was a report about the Sony breach which stated that as “a result of this pervasive and devastating attack, combined with other breaches, cybersecurity is no longer a CIO problem, but now a CEO and board level problem, given potential for business disruption.” The InformationWeek DarkReading March 11…
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced a settlement with AmeriFreight “that will halt the company’s allegedly deceptive practice of touting online customer reviews, while failing to disclose that the reviewers were compensated with discounts and incentives.” The FTC settlement on February 27, 2015 with AmeriFreight (an automobile shipment broker based…
The FTC (Federal Trade Commission) reported that ‘identity theft topped the FTC’s national ranking of consumer complaints for the 15th consecutive year.’ On February 27, 2015 the FTC issues its Consumer Sentinel Network for 2014 which identified these Top Ten complaint categories (including the number of complaints and percentages)…
Continue Reading No Surprise – Identity Theft Tops FTC Consumer Complaints
Yelp’s lawsuit alleges a breach of the ToS (Terms of Service) by the defendants who “try to game the system and undermine that trust, by building businesses based on fraudulent reviews…” in addition to the more obvious trademark violations. The February 13, 2015 lawsuit was filed in the US District…
Continue Reading Do You Still Rely on Yelp Reviews After Hearing that Yelp Sues Astroturfers?
A recent Infoworld story included 7 Red Flags about employees regarding “someone you admired, trusted, and invested yourself in ends up embezzling from the company, illegally accessing private emails, or using customer credit card data to buy computer equipment for their home, your incorrectly placed trust in that person will…
Continue Reading Red Flags Employers Should Know about Rogue Employees
According to a recent report groups in “China continue to target Western interests, but there has been a shift in focus from the theft of intellectual property to identity information” according to BusinessInsurance.com which drew these conclusions from a February 23, 2015 recent HP report entitled “HP Security Research…
Continue Reading More Cyber Criminals Targeting your Identity, Including Bad Guys in China!
Apparently the US National Security Agency (NSA) “has figured out how to hide spying software deep within hard drives made by Western Digital, Seagate, Toshiba and other top manufacturers, giving the agency the means to eavesdrop on the majority of the world’s computers, according to cyber researchers and former operatives” …
Continue Reading Watch Out! Your Computer Probably has Spyware Courtesy of the US Government!
Florida Senator Bill Nelson expressed his concern that “Big Brother may really be listening…recently, we learned that Samsung’s privacy policy for its voice-activated ‘Smart TV’ informed consumers that their indoor conversations can be recorded by the television and sent to a third party,…” during a hearing of the Senate Committee…
Continue Reading Senator Express Concerns about IoT Privacy and that “Big Brother” is Listening!
Pew research report “The Future of Privacy” indicated by 2025 that 55% of the 2,211 respondents no one should really expect any privacy and that the IoT (Internet of Things) will make things worse. Here are the themes reported on December 18, 2014 by those surveyed that there…
