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When the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) releases new regulations or changes to existing ones, the implications may not be obvious to the average business or company employees. The FTC and privacy The FTC is a federal agency that protects consumers from… Continue reading Cybersecurity engineering under the Federal Trade Commission
According to NordPass’ latest list of top 200 most common passwords in 2022, “password” is the most popular choice, followed by “123456”, “123456789”, “guest” and “qwerty“. 2022 is endin… Continue reading The top 200 most common passwords in 2022 are bad, mkay?
A survey report from Daon shows 92% of consumers believe that cybersecurity threats will continue to outpace cybersecurity technology, with 91% willing to take extra security measures to prove their identity on an ongoing basis to protect their informa… Continue reading The emergence of zero trust consumers
When your computer or smartphone needs repairing, can you trust repair technicians not to access or steal your personal data? According to the results of a recent research by scientists with University of Guelph, Canada, you shouldn’t. Granted, t… Continue reading Electronics repair technicians snoop on your data
Australian health insurance provider Medibank has announced it won’t be paying the ransom to the criminal(s) who stole data of 9.7 million of its current and former customers. “Based on the extensive advice we have received from cybercrime … Continue reading Medibank won’t pay the ransom for data stolen in breach
In this Help Net Security video, Robert Waitman, Privacy Director and Head of Privacy Research Program at Cisco, discusses the key findings of Cisco’s 2022 Consumer Privacy Survey. This year’s survey highlights the critical need for further trans… Continue reading What consumers expect from organizations that handle their personal data
Australian private health insurance provider Medibank has revealed that the hack and data breach it discovered over two weeks ago has affected more customers than initially thought. “We have received a series of additional files from the criminal… Continue reading Medibank data breach: More customers affected, attacker got in via stolen credentials
Medibank, Australia’s largest private health provider, has confirmed that last week’s “cyber incident” has resulted in a data breach. “Medibank has been contacted by a criminal claiming to have stolen 200GB of data,”… Continue reading Medibank hack turned into a data breach: The attackers are demanding money
Popular international fine wine online retailer iDealwine has suffered a data breach during the past weekend, and has yet to reveal the number of customers affected. Its e-shop is still offline, showing a brief explanatory message, and the firm has inf… Continue reading iDealwine suffers a data breach
Cisco published its 2022 Consumer Privacy Survey, an annual global review of consumers’ perceptions and behaviors on data privacy, highlighting the critical need for further transparency as consumers say their top priority is for organizations to be mo… Continue reading Consumers want more transparency on how companies manage their data