I found this story a little late, but I find it to be illustrative of the whole difficulty with trying to fight what has become known as “fake news”. This was the attempt: On Tuesday, April 30, Poynter posted a list of 515 “unreliable” news websites, built from pre-existing databases compiled by journalists, fact-checkers and…
As much as I am very concerned about the invasion of privacy that comes along with ever-present government and commercial surveillance, the even bigger concern might just be what an inviting target all of that data will be. As governments and companies continue to collect large amounts of data – and facial recognition trials are…
I’m not sure about this headline, it appears that, according to the company that makes WordPress Multi Language, the plugin code itself wasn’t hacked, just the customer database. Nevertheless, we see yet again that it wasn’t outside hackers causing problems for the company, it was an inside job. WPML claim that the email came from…
The story is disturbing on many levels, but for me this is the part that is both obvious, and a reason why IoT devices deserve a lot more careful consideration than we have been giving them. “At the time the Ukrainian access was provided, the video files were left unencrypted, the source said, because of…
Mashable asked the question that many of you may have had when you learned one of the more recently reported details of the Marriott/Starwood hack. “Why do hotels collect and store passports?” The answer they came up with turned out to be something that some of us started talking about a few years ago, but…
This seems like such a silly mistake: “A critical access hospital in Colorado will pay $114,000 in a settlement with the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) stemming from the failure to terminate a former employee’s access to a hospital database containing protected health information (PHI).” But, of course, it’s not silly when you are being…
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