Cyber Security News and Education
Perceptics license plate reader technology hacked Perceptics, a US technology firm that sells land border security technologies to governments was hacked. Perceptics deals in border security vehicle data acquisition, commercial vehicle inspection, electronic toll collection, […]
Facebook Fights to Keep Tracking People On and Off the App Facebook is appealing a court order from Belgium’s data protection authority in court today. Social Media giant, Facebook is challenging a court order which […]
How to remove your phone number from Facebook Facebook is allowing anyone to look up Facebook users by their security phone numbers. Your account security phone number is available for public searches by default in […]
Why You Should Not Add Your Birthdate on Social Media or Anywhere Else! There are details about you that you should never post on social media or anywhere else online for that matter. Social media […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook Blasts Data Privacy Practices Tim Cook, the CEO of Apple Inc., criticized rival tech companies during his keynote address at European data privacy conference in Brussels today. Cook spoke to architects […]
Google+ Shut Down After Security Glitch Exposes Hundreds of Thousands of Users Private Data Social media channel, Google+, is shut down for consumers. This comes on the heels of a Wall Street Journal report revealing […]
Six Ways to Prepare for GDPR Right Now! The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is just two days away from going into effect. Although it was passed in 2016, companies worldwide are […]
GDPR doesn’t allow for “cold emails” to be sent, anyone who receives a marketing email must have first voluntarily opted into receiving those emails. Before GDPR email regulations varied by country, but GDPR overrides the […]
GDPR – How is your data collected? More ways than you think The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect on May 25, 2018. The new European Union (EU) regulation affects anyone dealing with […]
Who Does GDPR Affect? Just about everyone! GDPR, short for the General Data Protection Act, affects everyone in the European Union plus anyone else who has anything to do with an EU citizen’s personal data. […]