Remove 12
article thumbnail

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

Other databases contained health insurance data, such as patents’ names, dates of birth, addresses and medical data. Only 2 definitely haven’t had data breached. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1 million patients and 1.6 million unique Social Security numbers.

article thumbnail

10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

Obviously I am a car guy and vehicles such as the one at the beginning of this post and the Nissan GT-R I bought back in 2013 have brought me enormous pleasure. Let's imagine you need a couple of thousand for 12 weeks: I highlighted the most important part in red because for some reason it was very small and a bit hard to read.

Education 111
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

The biggest changes since our debates on the Data Protection Act 1998, or even the early stages of the GDPR, which I was involved in as a Minister at the MoJ from 2010 to 2013, is that the threat to civil liberties and personal freedoms now comes not only from agencies of the state but from corporate power as well.

GDPR 120
article thumbnail

Extended Validation Certificates are Dead

Troy Hunt

They also failed to renew an Azure one in 2013 and just to be clear about it certainly not being a Microsoft thing, HSBC forgot one in 2008 , Instagram forgot one in 2015 and LinkedIn forgot one last year. Last up is the top insurance sites : United Services Automobile Association. back in 2001. Too long ago? Kaiser Permanente.

Marketing 110
article thumbnail

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #23 [Wake-Up Call] It's Time to Focus More on Preventing Spear Phishing

KnowBe4

Within that definition, spear phishing can be accomplished in thousands of different ways, ranging from basic attacks to more advanced, longer-range attacks. of hacking thousands of Apple devices to spy on diplomats: [link] WIRED: "Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams, recently it ticked over $12 Billion ." - D.G.,