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Credit to Author: Mike Elgan| Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 07:39:00 -0800
From U.S. Customs agents to cybercriminals, everyone wants to copy the data on your phone and laptop. Here’s how to protect your rights and also avoid industrial espionage.
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Credit to Author: Bob Violino| Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2019 10:37:00 -0700
Here are five major industries that will benefit from blockchain technology in the near future: financial services and banking, government, healthcare, energy, and transportation and logistics.
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Last week, the Federal Trade Commission hit Facebook with a $5 billion fine for mishandling user data. The fine comes after the FTC’s investigation following the Cambridge Analytica scandal. On this episode of TECH(feed), Juliet discusses the implications of this fine — and how Facebook may (or may not) change its practices.
Credit to Author: Marc Ferranti| Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 03:00:00 -0800
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 03:27:00 -0700
Apple CEO, Tim Cook spoke up for privacy at a conference of European privacy commissioners in Brussels this morning.
The themes of this year’s conference is “Debating Ethics: Dignity and Respect in Data Driven Life”, Cook is the first tech CEO to serve as the keynote speaker for the conference and was invited to speak.
He talked about data, put in a bid for a bill of U.S. digital rights, slammed competitors for profiting while unleashing powerfully negative forces, and spoke up for a GDPR-style privacy protection in the U.S.
Credit to Author: Ken Mingis| Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2018 03:00:00 -0700
Data breaches have become so common, and so frequent, that when companies like Facebook or Google admit to data leaks or outright hacks, users fret, the companies pledge to do better, and government regulators (sometimes) issue stern warnings.
Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
In recent weeks, Facebook acknowledged a breach affecting 50 million users and Google had to fess up to a breach affecting Google Plus users after initially deciding to keep quiet.
Facebook and Google recently acknowledged data breaches affecting millions of users. This won't be the last time that happens. CSO's J.M. Porup and Computerworld's Ken Mingis examine what's really going.
Credit to Author: Jonny Evans| Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2018 07:55:00 -0800
Apple has kept CEO Tim Cook’s enterprise security promise, and in doing so staked space in one of the few growing sectors of the insurance market, revealing a new enterprise-focused cybersecurity offering bought to market with Cisco, Aon and Allianz.