Collaborate Disseminate
Senator Ron Wyden has written to NIST asking for guidance and training for government staff in how to share files securely. Continue reading Government agencies still send sensitive files via hackable .zips
Krekelberg alleged that 58 fellow officers broke a federal privacy law by searching for her driver’s license data without any reason. Continue reading Cop awarded $585K after colleagues snooped on her via license database
The leak, carried out by a since-fired rogue employee, affected 2.7 million people and 173,000 businesses – about 41% of its clientele. Continue reading Desjardins’ employee from hell spills 2.9m records
The language we use could be indicators of disease and, with patient consent, could be monitored just like physical symptoms. Continue reading Facebook posts reveal your hidden illnesses, say researchers
Google says it’s fixed the issue, but we haven’t heard details on how many, and which, products were affected. Continue reading Used Nest cams were letting previous owners spy on you
DHS and FBI investigators are using Facebook profile IDs in court records – IDs that are easily used to look up their profile pages. Continue reading Government is exposing identities of child abuse victims
The “Suspicious Site Reporter” extension lets users easily report dubious sites, while a new warning flags potential typosquatting pages. Continue reading Google launches new Chrome protection from bad URLs
The Facebook ad agency xSocialMedia exposed 150K medical histories, along with identifying information for the people involved. Continue reading “Deeply personal medical” records exposed online
Some pretend to be hospitals to get patients’ payment data. Others pose as the goverment and try to get confidential data from hospitals. Continue reading Hospitals are being suffocated by robocalls
Not much has changed since a year ago, when a bot was tweeting out publicly visible Venmo “drug” deals from the public-by-default company. Continue reading Millions of Venmo transactions scraped (again)