June 22, 2016 0 Privacy Concerns May Underlie Alarming Decline in Facebook Sharing An article at Inc. Magazine discusses Facebook’s recent report of a large — 21% — decline [...]
June 15, 2016 0 Data Breach Threat Continues To Expand; What Works To Address The Costs IDG has the news of a new data breach study by the Ponemon Institute (sponsored by IBM Security) out today, [...]
February 17, 2016 1 Consumer Claims Survive Motion to Dismiss in Anthem Data Breach Case Plaintiffs in In re Anthem Data Breach Litigation got a nice Valentine’s Day gift from District Judge [...]
February 7, 2016 1 Circuit Split on Scope of Stored Communications Act So I finally got around to reading the opinion in Anzaldua v. Northeast Ambulance & Fire Protection Dist. [...]
January 7, 2016 0 Michaels Stores Class-Action Ruling Continues Denial of Consumer “Harm” Over the sleepy holiday-interstitial week a District court ruling (Whalen v. Michaels) came down [...]
October 28, 2015 0 CISA Bill Passes Senate; Flaunts Privacy Concerns and Safe Harbor Hopes The much-anticipated Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) cleared the Senate hurdle Tuesday, and is [...]
September 16, 2015 0 9/16/15 Security Round-Up: More Lessons From Ashley Madison, The TSA, And: A Valuable New Government Enforcement Tool? In this post we will briefly present and comment on a few stories and items that came to our attention in [...]
August 27, 2015 0 The Ashley Madison Breach: The End of The “Age of Internet Innocence”? By now you’ve no doubt heard of the Ashley Madison data breach, which became public in July 2015, and [...]
August 18, 2015 1 IRS Breach Upgraded — 3x More Severe; Data Fusion Risk Highlighted In what is becoming a common pattern, the May 2015 IRS customer data breach reported back in May has been [...]
August 11, 2015 0 Record-Size Insider Trading Ring Relied on Hacking, Data Breaches Recently we emphasized the point that data breaches are increasingly becoming “big business,” [...]