by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, Data Privacy & Security
A new study suggests that many American companies haven’t absorbed the lessons taught by their botched compliance with the EU’s GDPR last year. Procrastination and the lack of a unified and clear strategy to deal with the issues of data privacy over multiple systems...
by CDO Review Staff | May 20, 2019 | CDO Insider, Data Privacy & Security
Members of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) asked Congress to add teeth to the FTC enforcement powers so that they can effectively regulate the handling of personal data by big tech companies like Facebook and Google. Cecilia Kang reported on the House Energy and...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 8, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Important personal data like names, birthdates, credit card numbers, and employment information for over 3.1 million customers were stolen from Toyota Japan’s computers in what experts traced to a cyberattack launched by a Vietnam-based hacking group. Sean Lyngaas...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 8, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The scandals never end for Facebook. The latest one involves over 540 million Facebook user data records that had been inadvertently left exposed on an Amazon S3 bucket maintained by a Facebook-integrated third part app. Researchers from security firm UpGuard found...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 8, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security, Deals
Sqreen, a cybersecurity startup founded by two former Apple security engineers, has raised $14 million in Series A funding led by Greylock Partners. CEO Pierre Betouin and CTO Jean-Baptiste Aviat say that while their main workforce will remain in Paris, France, the...
by CDO Review Staff | Apr 8, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security, Healthcare
Healthcare firms know well enough to be careful about phishing and ransomware attacks but data collected over the last six months by the HHS HIPAA Breach Reporting Tool revealed that two of the four biggest health care breaches were self-inflicted injuries....
