Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy In Stores, Secret Surveillance Tracks Your Every Move: Imagine you are shopping in your favorite grocery store. As you approach the dairy aisle, you are sent a push notification in your phone: “10 percent off your favorite yogurt! Click here to redeem your coupon.” You considered buying yogurt on your Read More

SecureTheVillage Webinar Posted The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Part 3: Minimum Reasonable Security Practices Webinar: The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Part 3: Minimum Reasonable Security Practices Webinar Deck (PDF): The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), Part 3: Minimum Reasonable Security Practices June 6, 2019: Stan’s Guest: Rachel Capoccia, Partner, Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell Individuals at Read More

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy – Facebook In Class-Action Lawsuit Over Cambridge Analytica, Facebook Lawyer Says You Don’t Have Any Privacy on the Site. The Next Day, Zuckerberg Tells Shareholders He Wants to Build a “privacy-focused social platform.”: Just one day before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at a shareholder meeting that he wants to Read More

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Snapchat employees spied on users with internal tool, report says: Multiple employees abused privileged access to user data, reports Motherboard. CNet, May 24, 2019 First American Financial Corp. Leaked Hundreds of Millions of Title Insurance Records: The Web site for Fortune 500 real estate title insurance giant First American Financial Read More

Secure the Village In Support of CCPA Clarity, SecureTheVillage Releases “Minimum Reasonable Security Practices.” Based on the NIST Framework, CIS-20, and Others, the Practices Are a Floor: Do at Least These or Your Security Practices Are Not Reasonable. Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy If We Care So Much About What Google Knows, Why Do We Read More

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Why Surveillance Is the Climate Change of the Internet: The Atlantic podcast Crazy/Genius returns to explain how privacy became the most important idea on the internet—and why it’s still so confusing. The Atlantic, May 9, 2019 Cyber Warning Unhackable’ eyeDisk flash drive exposes passwords in clear text. Nothing is Unhackable: Read More

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy ROBOCALLS ARE GETTING WORSE — HOW DO WE STOP THEM?: If it seems like robocalls are getting worse, it’s not simply your imagination. Over 48 billion robocalls were placed in the US last year, which is 46 percent more than just a year earlier. The US agency in charge of Read More

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy ‘It’s time for us to watch them’: App lets you spy on Alexa and the rest of your smart devices: It’s no secret that our increasingly “smart” houses have become a rich source of data for companies. We know — in a general sense, anyway — that we are sacrificing Read More

CitadelOnSecurity Dr. Stan Stahl — President of Citadel Information Group and #SecureTheVillage — Discusses the California Consumer Privacy Act #CCPA and #ReasonableSecurityPractices with Larry Marino on Sunday Morning Newsmakers: The California Consumer Privacy Act which kicks-in on January 1, 2020 gives consumers a whole new set of privacy rights. It will also have a controversial Read More

Individuals at Risk Cyber Privacy Amazon Workers Are Listening to What You Tell Alexa. A global team reviews audio clips in an effort to help the voice-activated assistant respond to commands: Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are Read More