Have
I got your attention now?
Virgin
Media faces £4.5BILLION compensation payout after data breach left
personal details of 900,000 customers online for 10 months, lawyers
say
… Your
Lawyers, a firm based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, has offered to
help people who had their full names and contact details released get
up to £5,000 each.
Earlier
this month Virgin Media said the breach occurred because its database
was incorrectly configured, allowing
unauthorised access to one third-party.
The
information was accessible from April 2019 until February 28, 2020.
How
would you secure your data to avoid another massive fine?
Marriott
data breach exposes personal data of 5.2 million guests
Contacts
details, loyalty account information, company, gender, birthday,
partnerships and affiliations and room preferences were among guests’
details accessed between mid-January and February 2020.
Marriott
said this unexpected amount of information was accessed using the
login credential of two employees with an application built to
provide guest services.
… This
is the second major data breach involving the hotel chain after the
company was fined £99 million for an incident involving 339 million
guests.
Why
we teach Forensics…
Digital
Investigations Remain a Major Challenge for Law Enforcement
Conducting
digital investigations remains a major challenge for most law
enforcement agencies around the world, a new report by Israeli mobile
phone data company Cellebrite has found.
Their
study,
entitled the 2020 Digital Intelligence Benchmark Report, collected
data from over 2,000 law enforcement officers in more than 110
countries.
[From
the study:
- 6 out of 10 devices that reach the lab are locked.
- 90% of cases involve smartphones as the main evidence source.
- Locked devices and extracting data from encrypted apps are the two biggest challenges facing examiners.
If
you don’t think it is worth backing up, why do you keep it?
45%
of Indians do not back up their data, files: Survey
Nearly
half of Indians do not back up because they think their data or files
are not important enough and most of those who back up their data, do
it once a month, a survey said on Monday.
I’ll
ask again. Is there a baby in that bath water?
The
surveillance profiteers of COVID-19 are here
Our
worlds are so upside-down and backwards right now that Wired
claims Surveillance
Could Save Lives Amid a Public Health Crisis, and privacy
activist Maciej Cegłowski flat-out stated We
Need A Massive Surveillance Program.
These
normally privacy-forward sources are saying this in response to the
pandemic, obviously. But it's also because companies that track,
target, identify and surveil individuals are pitching
their technologies to ID and trace the infected — in shady
backroom discussions with the White House.
Not
complete, but it’s a start. I recommend Calibre
(https://calibre-ebook.com/)
to hold and organize the ebooks you download.
Bored
and on a budget? Here’s how to read for free while social
distancing
In
the past week, publishers and audio entertainment companies have
offered a deluge of free e-books and audiobooks to keep readers of
all ages engaged while they're hunkered down at home.
… For
audiobook fans, Penguin Random House Audio is among those offering
free listens for families, including "The Wonderful Wizard of
Oz" by L. Frank Baum.
… Here's
a roundup of where you can find free books and listens from home in
the weeks ahead.
(Related)
Some background music while you read?
Here
Are All the Live Streams & Virtual Concerts to Watch During
Coronavirus Crisis (Updating)
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