Consumer Reports Has an App To Help with Privacy
What would happen to the personalized advertising space if it was easy enough for most of us to opt out of data collection? As easy as Consumer Reports claims this tool is, we might find out.
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How Much Would a Government Shutdown Give Hackers a Leg Up?
As he points out, if nothing else, it simply slows down the work CISA is doing in comparison to the work bad actors can, and will, be doing. If we consider how much of a race it is to keep up with the opposition in this fight, being slowed down by politics sucks.
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Linked – Microsoft leaks 38TB of private data via unsecured Azure storage
As the article mentions, Microsoft does not make it easy to manage SAS tokens in bulk. It’s pretty easy to have a bunch of Azure data blob storage items lying around for years with active SAS tokens that were totally forgotten about.
If you’re using SAS tokens to share data, and it’s good for that, remember to clean up after yourself.
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Linked – Did Microsoft Just Upend the Enterprise Browser Market?
This is very interesting.
“The new product — called “Microsoft Edge for Business” — natively separates work and personal browsing into dedicated browser windows with their own favorites, separate caches and storage locations.”
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Linked – In-office work is the real threat to cybersecurity
There is something to this. How many times has someone fallen victim to phishing or drive-by downloads and wondered why the IT department didn’t build better protection? (I’ve seen it!)
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But Where Was the Data Going?
This is a good time for all of us to reconsider how we share data, who we share it with, and the process of cleaning up after data has been transferred. MoveIT is not the only data transfer service, they’re just the one who got breached this month. Next month it could be the one we use. Take steps now to limit the damage that could be done.
