Tag: Concerns

November 14, 2016

An Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) investigation into WhatsApp’s decision to share customer data with Facebook has confirmed initial concerns that personal information is not being properly handled. The UK’s information commissioner, Elizabeth Denham, said in an official company blog that […]

November 4, 2016

Ohio’s secretary of state will use the National Guard’s cybersecurity team to bolster its election systems, The Associated Press is reporting. Jon Husted, a Republican, will also take advantage of the FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and private security […]

October 6, 2016

Earlier this week, Facebook introduced Marketplace, a service that helps users discover, buy, and sell items locally. Think of it as Facebook’s Groups (which permit the sale of items) meets Craigslist. As the parents of relatively young children, my wife […]

September 19, 2016

The US homeland security chief said Friday authorities have confidence in the integrity of electoral systems despite growing cyber-security threats. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson offered his agency’s assistance to state and local election authorities in protecting voting […]

July 1, 2016

Email security is a major concern in enterprises where transmission and storing of email is snooped by the hackers. The only way to strengthen is to follow the best security practices with respect to the service providers. In the enterprise, […]

June 6, 2016

Republicans on the House Technology Committee are investigating the Federal Reserve’s security practices, citing “serious concerns” about the central bank’s ability to protect confidential information. The committee asked the Fed to turn over all incident reports related to cyber-attacks dating […]

May 27, 2016

The Senate Judiciary Committee has delayed a vote on a widely supported email privacy bill amid concerns from a handful of Republicans. The authors of the bill — Sens. Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) — asked that a […]

April 14, 2016

Research indicates the challenge has never been about security, but about transparency. The results are in: We have made zero progress since 2010. This was the year that IDC published results of a survey regarding cloud computing, and it found […]

March 3, 2016

Data security continues to be a major concern for enterprises seeking to move applications and services to the cloud but that is not deterring an increasing number of organizations from adopting it anyway. A new assessment of cloud adoption and […]

February 10, 2016

Heightened data security concerns, falling demand for smartphones and tablet PCs, and stagnant growth in the Internet of Things (IoT) market are stymieing the consumer electronics industry and will continue to do so over the next year, a new Accenture […]

November 9, 2015

Digital rights advocates are mobilizing against a sweeping Asia-Pacific trade deal. The White House says the pact will be a valuable tool to combat cyber theft, but critics say it could actually hamper cyber-security and erode critical privacy protections worldwide. […]

September 3, 2015

Earlier this year the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (#ico), along with 28 other data protection regulators from around the world, announced an #investigation into how #websites and #apps – squarely aimed at #children – were collecting and sharing personal information. […]