Mashable asked the question that many of you may have had when you learned one of the more recently reported details of the Marriott/Starwood hack. “Why do hotels collect and store passports?” The answer they came up with turned out to be something that some of us started talking about a few years ago, but…
I hadn’t thought of this but it really does set a hard deadline for preserving data, doesn’t it? “The move puts a bit of a clock on attorneys and e-discovery professionals looking to salvage data from the platform that could be relevant to future litigation. Indeed, the impending closure illustrates just exactly how tricky taking responsibility…
These breaches don’t hit the news cycle in the same way, but they are a lot more common, and they’re just stupid careless mistakes for the most part. “Some 2,124 reports could be attributed to human error, compared to just 292 that were deliberate cyber incidents, Kroll said, with the most common types of incidents…
This actually doesn’t surprise me. I would imagine for small and mid-sized law firms this would be pretty high as well. “A new survey shows that internet issues are the largest management stressor among SME owners, followed by GDPR and cyber security.” As we have moved more and more data and services to the cloud,…
This seems like such a silly mistake: “A critical access hospital in Colorado will pay $114,000 in a settlement with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) stemming from the failure to terminate a former employee’s access to a hospital database containing protected health information (PHI).” But, of course, it’s not silly when you are being…
I think this is an odd takeaway from this article after reading the rest of it: “In other words, as urban planners, tech companies, and governments collect and share data, we now know that “it’s anonymized” is never a guarantee of privacy. And as they dig deep into the data we generate, cities and citizens…