personally identifiable information
PII Data Vulnerability Management in the Hybrid Work Model
As the global pandemic continues, more and more businesses are transitioning or committing long-term to a hybrid work model. Unfortunately, this move poses new data security issues, especially when it comes to ...
T-Mobile and BlackBerry: More Lessons Learned the Hard Way
We learned this week that T-Mobile was the victim of a data breach that exposed data from tens of millions of customers, and then we found out that there is a flaw ...
T-Mobile Data Breach Amplifies Larger Cybersecurity Challenge
Reports came out this week that T-Mobile had suffered a data breach. T-Mobile claims that the leak has been sealed. They deserve credit for responding quickly, but for some the damage may ...
Sensitive Data Discovery: The 1touch.io Inventa Way
In this blog I’ll describe how 1touch.io Inventa does sensitive data discovery – how it discovers, merges, indexes and catalogs sensitive personal information across an enterprise for use in privacy and security ...
HTTP vs. HTTPS: How one letter can make a difference
You probably overlook it, and yet that letter protects your data every day. On March 12, 2021, the World […] The post HTTP vs. HTTPS: How one letter can make a difference ...
HackNotice to Democratize Threat Intelligence
HackNotice announced today it has added a set of free analysis and visualization tools to enable end users to know when their personally identifiable information has been disclosed. The tools, dubbed Risk ...
VA High Court: License Plate Database Not Personal Data
Regulations related to the collection, storage and use of personal data don’t apply to the collection of license plate readings, a court has found, calling privacy regs into question As you drive ...
Almost 235 Million YouTube, TikTok and Instagram Profiles Exposed Online by Unsecured Database
A security researcher has found a database with almost 235 social media profiles scraped from the Internet, likely belonging to Social Data. Public user data is precious, and many companies want to ...
74% of Internet Users Feel They Have No Control Over the Personal Information Collected on Them
New research conducted by the Ponemon Institute reveals a substantial lack of empowerment felt by consumers when it comes to their data privacy. There is also a gap between the data protection ...
Blockchain-based VPNs: The Next Step in Privacy Tech?
Could open source bandwidth utilized by blockchain be the alternative to today’s VPN? Every person who goes online today fights a losing privacy battle. Every site we visit, every app we download, ...
