Category Archives: personal data

Personal data vs. sensitive data: What is the difference?

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In today’s digital age, a tidal wave of information travels across networks from user to user and device to device. Organizations rely on collecting and storing sensitive and personal information to perform business-critical operations, such as collecting credit card payments, performing banking transactions and tracking packages. And, of course, with data collection comes the need […]

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How hackers stole the personal data of 37 million T-Mobile customers

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The criminals took advantage of an API to grab personal details such as customer names, billing addresses, email addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, and T-Mobile account numbers.
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People search websites create privacy nightmares for abortion rights advocates

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Many abortion rights advocates say data brokers selling their personal information online put them at risk.

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Top five insights from the 2021 CyberEdge Cyberthreat Defense Report

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For the last eight years, the Cyberthreat Defense Report has been helping enterprise security professionals gauge their internal practices and security investments against their peers across multiple countries and industries. The report is based upon d… Continue reading Top five insights from the 2021 CyberEdge Cyberthreat Defense Report→

Avoiding Video Background Snafus: How to Hold Safe Meetings Online

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Zoom mishaps have provided us with much comic relief while we’re trying to adjust to safe meetings online. We’ll never forget the lawyer who wasn’t really a cat and the boss who was a potato. Zoom backgrounds weren’t left out of the fun either. They gave us laughs, like the student who used Danny DeVito’s […]

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Health Care Ransomware Strains Have Hospitals in the Crosshairs

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The language of digital attacks shares a lot with the language of disease: ‘viruses’ ‘infect’ computers, and stopping their spread can be like trying to keep down a contagious disease. The two worlds also come together when threat actors attack using health care ransomware. When every minute could change the fate of a patient, preventing […]

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What Happens to Your Personal Data after Deleting an App

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Over the last decade or so, apps have become a familiar and comfortable aspect of our everyday lives. We download them to our smartphones and tablet devices and swap them out whenever we find something new or more interesting. This approach to software… Continue reading What Happens to Your Personal Data after Deleting an App→

VA High Court: License Plate Database Not Personal Data

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Regulations related to the collection, storage and use of personal data don’t apply to the collection of license plate readings, a court has found, calling privacy regs into question As you drive to George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, you ma… Continue reading VA High Court: License Plate Database Not Personal Data→

Broadvoice Leak Exposes 350M Records, Personal Voicemail Transcripts

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Companies that use Broadvoice’s cloud-based VoIP platform may find their patients, customers, suppliers and partners to be impacted by a massive data exposure. Continue reading Broadvoice Leak Exposes 350M Records, Personal Voicemail Transcripts→