Cox Communications will pay nearly US $600,000 to settle Federal Communications Commission (FCC) charges regarding a breach that exposed customer data. The incident occurred in August 2014 and compromised addresses, driver’s license numbers, and partial Social Security numbers (SSNs). The FCC said that Cox did not provide adequate security for the data and that the… Read More »
According to a study from Verizon, nearly 20 percent of breaches involving healthcare information are not detected for at least one year. This is due in part to the fact that some organizations outside the healthcare sector are unaware that they have healthcare data stored in their systems. Twenty percent of healthcare breaches of health… Read More »
A breach of sanriotown.com has exposed the personal information of 3.3 million Hello Kitty users. The database may have been open to intruders for more than a month. The vulnerable database was found by the same person who recently discovered the unprotected MacKeeper database. The Register story NBC News Wired story
While waiting for the official announcement from the EU Council, expected by next week, hereafter there is a link to the final version of the GDPR which was agreed upon yesterday: last version
Keynote speech at ‘EU Data Protection 2015 Regulation Meets Innovation’ event San Francisco, 8 December 2015 Giovanni Buttarelli … “First, with or without the GDPR, for all sectors of society and the economy, data protection has become more serious than ever before. Second, with or without the GDPR, data protection has gone, is going, and… Read More »
As mentioned in the previous post, on November 13th the XI National Congress of ANSSAIF (National Association of Security Specialists in Companies of Financial Intermediation) was held in Rome, on the theme of ‘Digital Services, Security, Network – What knowledge and what tools to address new threats?’. The appointment, rich of illustrious and interesting interventions,… Read More »
Law firm Osborne Clarke has called on EU regulators to rethink the impact of the forthcoming European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on data generated by health trackers and other wearables, including the Apple Watch, Fitbit and Garmin fitness bands. For more detail you can see this news.
Let’s try to look at some phenomena not necessarily consistent with each other, not apparently at least: – EU, launches, more or less simultaneously, rules for privacy and for cyber security; – The European Court cancels the Safe Harbour Agreement by replacing de facto the need to manage data and information within EU; – The recent dispute with… Read More »
Data breach hits Hilton Worldwide hotel chain Cybersecurity journalist Brian Krebs, citing several banking sources, reported on his blog on Friday 25 September 2015 that a pattern of fraud has been detected involving credit cards that had been used at point-of-sale registers in gift shops and restaurants at “a large number of Hilton Hotel and… Read More »
Cyber intelligence is probably one of the important weapons against terrorism. GDPR is a barrier against the freedom of intrusion of a wide variety of powers in the personal life of common people. These two statements are strictly connected: that’s why one of the most heard statements in these dark days is “less privacy for… Read More »