Tag: USA

Snowden: 4 big security and privacy assumptions he undermined

September 16, 2016

Oliver Stone’s movie about Edward Snowden, which opens on Friday, September 16th, 2016, has a lot of people looking back at one of the biggest information security breaches in US history, the one we learned about in June, 2013. That’s when the UK-based Guardian newspaper published classified information about the mass electronic surveillance activities of … More Snowden: 4 big security and privacy assumptions he undermined

EU-US Privacy Shield launches: Key points to this agreement

August 12, 2016

There has been a lot riding on this divisive and complicated agreement, which is why it has taken over two and a half years for all the involved parties to iron out all the details. As of July 12th, the new framework was officially adopted and put into effect. The EU-US Privacy Shield, as it … More EU-US Privacy Shield launches: Key points to this agreement

Cybercrime ‘a growing concern’ for Americans

September 10, 2015

Cybercrime is an increasingly pressing issue for many American citizens and organizations, according to a finance expert who pointed out that up to one billion data records were compromised in the US alone last year. Sarbjit Nahal, managing director and head of thematic investing at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, was quoted by Barron’s as … More Cybercrime ‘a growing concern’ for Americans

Millions of records lost in huge OPM US data breach

July 13, 2015

The US Office of Personnel Management has admitted that the widely-publicised data breach in June was more wide-reaching than at first thought. The OPM has now publicly recognised that data records of 21.5 million people have been lost after hackers targeted central databases. The 21.5m records include present, former, and prospective government employees and contractors … More Millions of records lost in huge OPM US data breach