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Personal Data Tracker Exposes Marathon Cheater. Cheater, Cheater, No Pumpkin Eater.
The race: Ft. Lauderdale A1A Half Marathon
The runner’s claim to fame: 2nd fastest time for the race
Any guesses, man or woman who claimed the fast time? a woman
How did she get caught? She posted her GPS race data
SC Media | Char-IOTs of Fire: Marathon cheater exposed by own fitness tracking device, app
Health Care Cybersecurity. The numbers you need to be informed. 88% of ransomware hits health.
- 88% of ransomware attacks are health care
- In June 2016, health care records breached hit a high of 10,880,605
- cybersecurity breachs cost health care $6.2 BILLION
- 300% increase in big breaches- hackers are looking for data in large quantities
Health Care Dive | Charts: Must-know healthcare cybersecurity statistics
+1 Kid Toy Hacked. Hello Data Security Law Fix.
What screams fix cybersecurity laws? A breach of a voice recording teddy bear
What’s the issue that would be addresed in legislation? The Teddy Bear company stored customer data and information on a public database that required no authentication.
What does no authentication mean? No security protocols, no passwords, no limited IP addresses etc… It’d be like leaving your credit card statement on a public park bench.
TechHive | Smart teddy bears for kids suffer a contentious data breach
Polling hackers.
- 88% of hackers at the 2016 DEF CON conference say they can hack a target in 12 hours
- 81% of hackers say that they can identify and exfiltrate a target’s data in 12 hours
- 50% of hackers change their method each time
- 84% of hackers social engineer their vicitms- hello Facebook profiles
- 52% say training employees is effective
TREND. Data Protections for Home Devices. Warrant or no Warrant.
Alexa, the Amazon product, home guru records voices.
Alexa also records suspected murderers, at least it did in Arkansas.
What kind of protection is Amazon seeking for the Alexa recordings?
- Until law enforcement creates a compelling enough case, no Alexa recordings
- Amazon wants prosecutors to “prove the data isn’t available anywhere else and that it’s sufficiently related to the subject of the investigation”
Next step: Legislative fixes
Public-Private Partnership to Improve State CyberSecurity Training. Improve Student Cybersecurity
The Public Private Partnership: Virginia and Amazon
The role of Amazon: to support scalable cloud infrastructure and collaborate on cybersecurity educational efforts
How far down the state employee food chain will education go? The partnership will also help educate teachers with cybersecurity courseware
Data Security Legislation Trend. 1st Legislative Phase is Missing. Ask the experts.
A former top national security adviser says the cybersecurity legislation that is necessary is: uniform definitions for cybersecurity across all government levels.
Why do we need uniform definitions? Uniform defintions improve strategy for enforcement and legislation.
Defense of Democracies | Framework and Terminology for Understanding Cyber-Enabled Economic Warfare
Business TREND. 5 Data Security Protections for Oil and Gas Companies.
5 ways oil and gas comapnies can minimize legal exposure from a data breach:
- Plan ahead. Have an incident reponse team in place.
- Insurance. Lots of policies cover data security now, check your policy.
- Stay up to date on data security laws & regulations. There are overlapping levels of laws between state and federal and overlapping agency jurisdictions.
- Create & Maintain a data policy. Prescribe what is retained and for how long.
- Train and test your employees.
Internet Association. New Campaign Fundraising Tool. 3 Key Points.
What group is launching a new campaign fundraising tool? the Internet Association (Google, Facebook, et.al.)
How does the new fundraising tool work?
- The Internat Association selects candidates for virtual meetings
- The virtual meetings allows people to ask candidates questions
- During which, people can donate money to the association’s political action committee and will be directly transferred to the candidate featured during the virtual meeting