Regulators Are Making Little Breaches Really Hurt
In an era of aggressive regulators even small data breaches can produce huge losses for companies. A multimillion dollar settlement for five small breaches of healthcare data affecting roughly 500 individuals? Believe it.
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The Biggest Cyber Threat Today
Phishing. A very strong argument can be made that phishing (including its variants clone phishing, spear phishing, whaling, and smishing) is the most important cyber threat facing companies and individuals today. What Is Phishing? For the uninitiated, phishing...
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The Sun Sets On the US – EU Safe Harbor
That awful grinding noise you heard on October 6th was the gears seizing up in the legal machinery governing transatlantic data flows. The European Court of Justice threw one heck of a wrench into the works when it issued a judgment declaring that the Safe Harbor...
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Hospitals + Pagers = Cyber Risk
Remember pagers? Those little devices about the size of a pack of playing cards that used to be cool to wear on your belt back in the 80s? You could get short messages on them, usually telling you to call a number, and which then set in motion the search for (cue the Wayback Machine) a pay phone.
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Oh No, Not Another Cyber Blog
I wouldn’t blame you if that was your reaction when you first saw or heard about this blog. With so many excellent blogs focused on cyber issues today, does the world really need another one? I think there is room for one more. There are lots of great blogs that cover...
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