The word “cookies” has become so much a part of our online experience that most consumers are at least tangentially aware of the technology’s capability and purpose. For the online consumer, cookies are mostly associated with how web-based companies are able track the browsing habits of Internet users. With the ability to track user preferences online, the […]
Mobile application developer, W3 Innovations, has reached a $50,000 settlement with the Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). W3 Innovations was charged, by the FTC, with collecting and storing information from children, such as e-mail addresses and messages posted on public message boards, without parental consent. This is the first time […]
Security experts from McAfee announced tonight that the United Nations and 72 other organizations were among those who were infiltrated by a cyber-attack – the largest data breach to date. According to Reuters, the hackers broke into the computer system of the U.N. Secretariat in Geneva in 2008, and were subsequently able to comb through terabytes […]
In the wake of a growing number of corporate hacking incidents, the demand for cyber-liability insurance coverage is growing at an astounding rate. This as companies seek alternative measures to mitigate their overall enterprise risk management strategies. The insurance industry is struggling with how best to write those policies, and no where is this more prevalent than at Zurich American Insurance […]
The scenario usually is something as simple as – cyber-thieves plant a software program onto a point-of-sale terminal at your local retail establishment, which then allows the criminal to retain the credit card information from the unsuspecting patron. While money is being drained from the customer’s bank account to pay for items like clothes and gas, […]
Tuesday, July 19, 2011, will become a red-letter date in the world of cyber-security. While the British government was busy ‘undressing’ media mogul Rupert Murdoch for his company’s role in the hacking scandal that has rocked the U.K., the U.S. government on Tuesday launched a nationwide dragnet against “hacktivists” who are operating within the jurisdiction of the United States. […]
The New York Times reported today that the recovery expenses for Sony, Corp., related to its hacking incident this past April will likely exceed $173 million U.S. dollars. This announcement coincides with the Company’s decision to promote Mr. Andrew House to the position of president and chief executive of Sony Computer Entertainment. This position was once held […]
On Wednesday night, the Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA), Security Community, hosted an event at the Attachmate offices in downtown Seattle, WA, on one startup companies experience with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud outage of April 21, 2011. Jeff Malek, co-founder of the Seattle-based virtual economy platform BigDoor Media, Inc., did a post-mortem presentation […]
This week, online hacker group LulzSec posted, on an open Internet forum, that they have declared “open season” on virtually (no pun intended) all government and corporate websites around the world. The group, along with its loosely affiliated partner Anonymous, are encouraging hacktavists to post any acquired mission-critical information of targeted organizations to its Internet websites for public […]
As more and more companies are falling victim to cyber-attacks, the concept of an incident, or breach, response plan has become very pertinent to corporate leaders. When Epsilon Data Management was hacked into last March, CEO Bryan Kennedy decided to notify all of its important customers within 48 hours of the breach, even though he […]