Posted by admin on February 20, 2012
The Public Interest Advocacy Centre (PIAC) recently released a report looking into data breach notification in Canada and whether current and proposed legislation, Bill C-12, is adequate to protect consumers. Alberta currently has the only data breach notification law in Canada. The report, “Data Breaches: Worth Noticing?“, is in part based on consumer feedback that indicates [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | 
Tags: Bill C, Consumer Feedback, Consumers, Current, Data Breach, Data Breaches, Discretion, Law In Canada, Notification Law, Notification Requirement, Notification Window, Privacy Commissioner, Proposed Legislation, Public Interest Advocacy, Public Interest Advocacy Centre, Report Concludes That | 
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Posted by admin on January 27, 2012
Zappos recently announced that they had been the victim of a cyber attack and that their 24+ million customers would be contacted about the incident. The database accessed did not include credit card or payment data and Zappos has already performed a reset on customer passwords. The breached information included name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses, [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Banking Information, Breach, Consumers, Corporate Perspective, Customer Passwords, Cyber Attack, Cyber Criminals, E Mail Address, Encrypted Passwords, Forbes, Fraud, Great Time, Identity Theft, Last Four Digits, Password Reset, Phone Number, Precaution, Shipping Addresses, Source Of Information, Zappos | No Comments »
Posted by admin on January 6, 2012
McAfee Labs released their 2012 Threat Predictions report outlining some of the threats they believe will top the charts in 2012. Their top threats include mobile banking, ‘legal’ spam, virtual currency and attacks that have political or social notoriety motivations, including industrial attacks, cyberwarfare demonstrations and hacktivist attacks. The report looks into some interesting trends [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Consumers, Demonstrations, Exploits, Firmware, Hackers, Legitimate Advertisers, Mcafee, Mobile Banking, Motivations, Notoriety, Profile, Spamming Techniques, Vectors, Virtual Currency | No Comments »
Posted by admin on November 10, 2011
What is Get Safe Online Week? This week is “Get Safe Online Week” in the UK, a government driven initiative to promote the awareness of online safety issues. The initiative reaches out to consumers and small businesses through competitions, events and communication activity that kicked off with the Get Safe Online Summit on Monday 7 [...]
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: 7 November, Communication Activity, Competitions, Consumers, Driven Initiative, Getsafeonline, Hassle, Identity Fraud, Identity Theft, Internet Safety, Objective, Online Fraud, Prevention, Safety Issues, Small Businesses, State Of The Nation, Summit, Time Out, Website Www, Www News | No Comments »
Posted by admin on September 10, 2011
We try to stay abreast of changes in breach and privacy laws. Though we won’t post details here on every new proposed National bill or every small change in State laws, sometimes a change will catch our eye. Today we read about an amendment to the California Breach Notification Law that adds some detail-rich requirements [...]
Categories: laptop security, Security | Tags: Breach, California Law, California Residents, Consumers, General Description, January 1, Law Enforcement Investigation, Legislation, Notification Law, Notifications, Privacy Laws, State Laws | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 24, 2011
AdaptiveMobile has launched an SMS spam reporting and protection service aimed at allowing consumers to report and protect themselves from unwanted messages.
Categories: internet | Tags: Consumers, Reporting Service, Service Application, Sms Application, Sms Service, Sms Spam, Spam Protection, Spam Reporting, Unwanted Messages | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 24, 2011
LogLogic has announced the next version of its data management product to add new functionality to protect consumers’ personally identifiable information (PII).
Categories: internet | Tags: Authentication Data, Consumers, Data Management, Double Authentication, Functionality, Loglogic, Management Product | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 23, 2011
AdaptiveMobile has launched an SMS spam reporting and protection service aimed at allowing consumers to report and protect themselves from unwanted messages.
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Consumers, Reporting Service, Service Application, Sms Application, Sms Service, Sms Spam, Spam Protection, Spam Reporting, Unwanted Messages | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 23, 2011
AdaptiveMobile has launched an SMS spam reporting and protection service aimed at allowing consumers to report and protect themselves from unwanted messages.
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Consumers, Reporting Service, Service Application, Sms Spam, Unwanted Messages | No Comments »
Posted by admin on August 23, 2011
LogLogic has announced the next version of its data management product to add new functionality to protect consumers’ personally identifiable information (PII).
Categories: Security, Software | Tags: Authentication Data, Consumers, Data Management, Double Authentication, Functionality, Loglogic, Management Product | No Comments »
