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It took Dell almost a full month to inform its customers that their information was stolen following a security incident which occurred on November 9, 2018, reads a notice on the computer company’s website. The company reset customer passwords wi… Continue reading Dell detects data breach, informs customers after a month
The US is not the only country asking tech giants to allow access to encrypted customer data for fear of terror attacks. In the following weeks, Australia’s parliament will cast votes on proposed data encryption legislation that requires companie… Continue reading Tech companies unite against Australia’s encrypted data demands
Two instances of app removal from the Mac App Store.
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Apple is planning to create an online portal that will allow law enforcement officials around the world to request information about its users more easily. Continue reading Apple’s new tool will make it easier for law enforcement to request data
British Airways, UK’s largest airline, has been hacked, the company confirmed on their official website this week. According to a spokesperson who interviewed with The Telegraph, almost 400,000 customers who booked a flight between 22:58 BST Augu… Continue reading British Airways hacked: 400,000 customers affected
It’s one thing to discover a data leak, it’s another to find out from a journalist that your website is leaking customer data. Continue reading Comcast Xfinity web flaws exposed customer data
Because companies accept and store sensitive, personally identifiable consumer customer data, they are responsible for safeguarding it against theft by cybercriminals. This should be common sense. Yet, according to a Ponemon Institute study commissioned by Centrify, only about half of the marketing and IT/security professionals polled agree that their companies “have an obligation to take..
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Ridesharing behemoth Uber agreed Tuesday to institute “a culture of privacy” in how it handles personal information from its passengers and drivers, following a Federal Trade Commission investigation that revealed the company misrepresented its internal data access policies and failed to take reasonable security measures to safeguard data in the cloud. The FTC announced the proposed settlement — which does not include any financial penalty on Uber — in a press call held by the agency’s acting Chairwoman Maureen Ohlhausen. The settlement, she said, will last for 20 years and “requires a culture of privacy at Uber” — which has to appoint a privacy officer, institute a privacy program and get it audited by an independent third party. FTC officials say that they don’t have the power to impose penalties — except for violations of existing orders. The commission also generally doesn’t seek financial redress for consumers unless there is a tangible […]
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The personal data of as many as 14 million U.S. Verizon customers has been exposed in a publicly accessible server owned and operated by a third-party vendor. NICE Systems, an Israeli firm that provides call center and back-office operations for Verizon, administered the server that contained customer names, addresses, account details and account personal identification numbers (PINS), according to a new report from UpGuard’s Cyber Risk Team, who discovered the breach. Given NICE Systems’ history of supplying technology for state-sponsored — and often intrusive — surveillance, these findings are concerning, the report stated. “This offshore logging of Verizon customer information in a downloadable repository should be alarming to all customers who entrust their private data to major US companies, only to see it shared with unknown parties,” the report reads. The data was stored in an Amazon Web Services S3 bucket that “appears to have been created to log customer […]
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