• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-15-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Privacy protections for wearable devices are weak, study says

The rapidly expanding wearable device market raises serious privacy concerns, as some device makers collect a massive amount of personal data and share it with other companies, according to a new study.Existing health privacy laws don’t generally apply to wearable […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-15-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Privacy protections for wearable devices are weak, study says

The rapidly expanding wearable device market raises serious privacy concerns, as some device makers collect a massive amount of personal data and share it with other companies, according to a new study.Existing health privacy laws don’t generally apply to wearable […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-15-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Here’s some questions Congress should ask about the election-related hacks

Members of congress are demanding answers over claims that Russia attempted to influence the U.S. presidential election with several high-profile hacks. U.S. intelligence agencies are confident that the Kremlin was involved, but incoming president Donald Trump remains skeptical.  As they […]

• Brian Burke-Gaffney
• Dec-15-2016
• Business Technology
•  Comments Off on Yahoo breach means hackers had three years to abuse user accounts

Security researchers are disturbed it took Yahoo three years to discover that details of over 1 billion user accounts had been stolen back in 2013.It means that someone — possibly a state-sponsored actor — had access to one of the […]