by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Apple CEO Tim Cook did not pull any punches as he castigated his fellow tech executives for failing to own up to the chaos they created in failing to protect the personal information of their customers. Christopher Maynard filed this report in Consumer Affairs: In an...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Craig Newmark, founder of the eponymous classified ads website Craigslist, has donated $6 million to fund Digital Lab, a division of Consumer Reports which is tasked with monitoring and evaluating the data collection practices of mobile and internet-based products and...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The photos and license plate images of up to 100,000 travelers who were processed through a few specific lanes of a single U.S. border crossing have been stolen by hackers. The data breach covered a period of one and a half months, according to US Customs and Border...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
The great majority of data breaches are not caused by genius hackers breaking into networks. Most data breaches happen because passwords are stolen and privileged access credentials are abused. AI-powered machine learning systems employing Privileged Access Management...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Dating app Tinder has acceded to Russian demand to turn over user data to government authorities for examination and monitoring. While no user data has yet been surrendered to Russian regulators as of the middle of June, Tinder has agreed to join a government register...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Failure is inevitable with endpoint security tools. In fact, the 2019 Global Endpoint Security Trends Report conducted by Absolute Software reached the conclusion that 100% of devices will experience an encryption failure within one year and that median...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
E-Discovery and information governance software maker Exterro has purchased Jordan Lawrence, a provider of data privacy and information management software. The terms of the purchase were not disclosed. Stephanie Simone filed this report for KMWorld: With this...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
Lightyear Dealer Technologies (operating as DealerBuilt) left confidential personal details of millions of people exposed online without the proper security precautions and at least one hacker managed to download the names, social security numbers and payroll details...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
If California’s data privacy law that is to take effect at year’s end is already scaring the pants off Big Tech, then the pending data privacy bill in New York is like Godzilla coming out of the water. Issie Lapowsky filed this report in Wired: The New York Privacy...
by CDO Review Staff | Jun 21, 2019 | Data Privacy & Security
At least four major federal agencies: The United States Postal Service (USPS), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Social Security Administration (SSA) still use an outdated form of identity...
