Posts Tagged ‘Small Business’

What's the REAL impact of the LinkedIn, eHarmony, Yahoo and other password breaches

For years, I’ve been talking about drive-by-lootings, where security screwups on part of CompanyA cause damage to innocent Company B.   In this case, Microsoft (legally!) used the leaked password […]

Yes, you can be fired for Facebook posts

Repeat after me: “Everything I (or my friend) (or my friends’ friends) say about me online can be used against me FOREVER”.   Case in point – an ambulance operator […]

Brighttalk Mobile Security Webinar – A Global Perspective on Mobile Security, Privacy and Safety – July 11, 2012

http://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/288/50821 July 11, 2012 4:00 PM EST Traditionally, when we think of mobile computing, we think about which of our employees we trust, and what devices we allow onto our […]

BYOD blowback drives more IT underground

Corporate America failed to learn from Japan’s 30+ year experiment with BYODs and is making new mistakes, in top of the old ones. Japan suffered massive IT penetration and data […]

NYS CyberSecurity Conference – Social Media & Cloud Computing Threats to Privacy, Security and Liberty – June 5 2012

http://www.dhses.ny.gov/ocs/awareness-training-events/conference/2012/index.cfm June 5, 2012, 11 am   Social Media has quickly woven itself into the very fabric of everyday life. This boom in sharing, even the most banal of details, […]

ASIS 58 – Social Media & Cloud Computing Threats to Privacy, Security and Liberty – Sep 11, 2012

Sep 11, 2012 – ASIS 58 Social Media & Cloud Computing Threats to Privacy, Security and Liberty, Session 3183 http://www.asis2012.org/Pages/Seminar-Home-Page.aspx   Social Media has quickly woven itself into the very […]

Cybercrime isn't so lucrative – NYTimes.com

A fascinating article in the NY TIMES sheds light on why spammers and malware peddlers aren’t billionaires…it seems that the cybecrime loss stats are skewed. Yet in terms of economics, […]

ANSI Free Report – The Financial Impact of Breached Protected Health Information

ANSI (the American National Standards Institute ) has produced a phenomenal, and free, report on the financial impact of losing healthcare data.   Highly recommended that you download it from http://webstore.ansi.org/phi/

New Year's Eve Burglary Triggers Medical Records Firm’s Bankruptcy

Still think HIPAA compliance is strictly for the big guys? Still think your small medical practice or medical billing business is safe from hackers, criminals and litigators?   From the […]

Want a football scholarship? Friend your coach

Who’s more invasive than State Governments & employers? Colleges.   Yes, the bastions of higher learning and organized sports are also erasing any concept of privacy.  To protect the multi-billion […]