Privacy is Cybersecurity for People
Why do companies need CyberSecurity? Have you ever heard a company talk about privacy when they are discussing a massive hack and theft of your data? Why is cybersecurity such…
Data is the currency of the 21st century – the denominator of contemporary value.
Report spotlights vast scale of adtech’s ‘biggest data breach’
New data about the real-time-bidding (RTB) system’s use of web users’ info for tracking and ad targeting, released today by the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL), suggests Google and…
How to Download YouTube Videos
There are billions of hours of video on YouTube. Literally. And that's hardly the most astounding statistic about the site, which has been the go-to destination for uploading and watching…
WebFiche of the News for September 15, 2021
You may need to "reload" the page to trigger the Magnifying Glass function correctly (below) Placing coverage and headlines side-by-side forces the recognition of the fact that the coverage of…
How to run a phishing attack simulation with GoPhish
Jack Wallen shows you how to run a phishing simulation on your employees (or your grandparents, parents, kids, church group...) to test their understanding of how this type of attack…
What if you could take a Photo of the Internet?
Have you ever heard of MicroFiche or MicroFilm? In the days before the Internet became the primary preserve of data storage and access, MicroFiche was the archive standard for document…
Zoom iOS App Sends Data to Facebook Even if You Don’t Have a Facebook Account
As people work and socialize from home, video conferencing software Zoom has exploded in popularity. What the company and its privacy policy don't make clear is that the iOS version…
T-Mobile has been hacked yet again—but still doesn’t know what was taken
T-Mobile said on Monday that hackers breached its internal servers and that company investigators are in the process of determining if the incident involves the theft of sensitive customer data.…
Tech Rights Are Workers’ Rights: Doordash Edition
Doordash maintains that its workers are “independent contractors” who can pick and choose among the delivery jobs available from moment to moment, based on the expected compensation. Given the outsized…
What exactly are dieting apps doing with all your data?
In Europe, online data is protected by the General Data Protection Regulation, but data privacy laws in the United States are more limited and state dependent. Even still, in Europe…