As shoppers try to find deals in time to put presents under the tree, phishing campaigns are making it more difficult for consumers to tell if a website is naughty or nice.
- By Tyler Reguly
- Dec 18, 2019
Thanks to a statewide policy banning law enforcement use of facial recognition for three years, several agencies in San Diego will lose access to a database of facial scans.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The travel companies were fined for lax data security practices that potentially led to a breach affecting 880,000 payment cards globally.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 17, 2019
The vote marks the fourth town that has banned facial recognition this year, following Somerville, Mass. and San Francisco and Oakland in California.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
The cyberattack caused the city to completely shut down its network for several days, but did not affect emergency services.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 16, 2019
There is little known about the government’s use of “stingrays,” which tracks the locations of a cell phone and all devices within its range.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 13, 2019
The Port of Seattle Commission approved a moratorium on new biometric technology programs on Tuesday amid concern over data privacy and the tool’s accuracy.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 13, 2019
The ongoing debate over Apple and Facebook’s decision to not build “backdoors” for law enforcement to obtain encrypted messages continued to rage during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 12, 2019
A Mississippi family had their Ring account hacked, allowing a man to speak to their eight-year-old daughter through the speaker.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 12, 2019
Chris Krajewski previously served as general manager for Ojo's Central Valley office
The government has not linked the attack to the shooting, which is being investigated as an act of terrorism.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 11, 2019
The shooting in Jersey City lasted for over an hour and ended with a firefight between the suspects and several police officers.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
The lawsuit argues that Mercy Hospital and SDI Security did not follow their own protocols by failing to issue alerts or initiating a lockdown of the building.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
After the FCC voted to ban telecommunications companies from using subsidies to buy equipment from Huawei, the Chinese company filed suit.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 10, 2019
With the January 2020 deadline for CCPA compliance looming, what lessons from GDPR compliance apply most this time around? Topping the list should be thinking and acting beyond compliance to build and sustain a long-range view of data security.
- By Mark Casetta
- Dec 09, 2019
Friends of the gunman, who was in the Saudi air force, have been cooperating with the investigation into the attack, which killed three sailors.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 09, 2019
Commercial 5G mobile networks are only just becoming available, with highly developed use cases for improving autonomous automobiles navigation and smart-sensor networks, and new vulnerabilities and security requirements are already emerging.
- By Karen Epper Hoffman
- Dec 09, 2019
We all heard it growing up, “Close and lock the doors when you leave the house!” We all knew where the doors were and how to lock them. It was easy. But what if you don’t know where all the “doors are” and they don’t all have “locks?” What’s the move then?
China is home to more than 54 percent of those cameras, and the most growth is expected in developing countries like India and Brazil.
- By Haley Samsel
- Dec 09, 2019
There are three types of organizations: Those who have been hacked; those who are doing everything in their power to not be hacked; and those who are being hacked right now, without even knowing it.