Skeptic that I am, I am also a sucker for the Olympics. There are a 1,000 reasons to dismiss the Games as a commercial fraud, but still, in every competition, amazing stories of perseverance, love, and achievement emerge. So I’ll be watching every chance I get. This time around, there [Keep reading]
Just how much data leaks out of a person every day? Perhaps a terabyte, guessed Rapid7’s Tod Beardsley. A terabyte! Every touch of a cell phone, ever block you drive, every card you swipe – heck, even while you are asleep — firms are constructing a digital mirror image of [Keep reading]
You’ve had this sneaking sensation all along, haven’t you? That those security machines at airports don’t really do any good? That someone might be looking at naked X-rays of you and laughing? That a whole lot of money has been wasted on technology that doesn’t work, and that the best [Keep reading]
Add Michaels craft store to the list of retailers who’ve been shamed into admitting that hackers have possibly stolen credit card information from their systems. Here’s a pro tip: hiding this important information from consumers until a journalist finds out about it and tells everyone is bad for business. And [Keep reading]
Neiman Marcus on Thursday released several details about its Target-like credit card hacking incident, including these key points: Hackers had access to their systems from July 16 to Oct. 30. A malicious program attempted to “scrape” payment card information during that time frame Between those two dates, about 1.1 million [Keep reading]
(Editor’s note: Perhaps you saw the recent hubbub over a Princeton study suggesting Facebook will lose 80 percent of its users by 2017, and Facebook’s saracstic response that Princeton will lose half its enrollment by 2018. Here’s one woman’s story that — coincidentally — suggests Princeton may have the better [Keep reading]
Being a lawyer from Brazil, and having lived in New York before moving to Madrid to work in private practice as a privacy law expert, I am in a unique position to understand the different cultural and legal perspective of privacy in each country. And there is, no doubt, some [Keep reading]
This might be the most chilling text message I have ever heard of: “Dear subscriber, you are registered as a participant in a mass disturbance.” I know many observers have long criticized those who write about privacy of being outfitted with tinfoil hats. Admittedly, we sometimes stretch to conjure up [Keep reading]
Target has begun to e-mail victims of its data leak, and has launched a website that will allow consumers to sign up for free credit monitoring. Consumers can visit CreditMonitoring.Target.com right now and begin the process of signing up for credit monitoring. The firm is taking the added step of [Keep reading]
Credit card hackers who broke into Neiman Marcus payment systems were able to steal data from the firm between Sept. 1 and Dec. 17, a person familiar with the investigation told BobSullivan.net on Monday. That’s considerably longer than the 18-day window that hackers were said — at least initially — [Keep reading]
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