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MyHeritage Breach Exposes 92 Million User Accounts
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MyHeritage Breach Exposes 92 Million User Accounts
MyHeritage is joining the many companies that have recently experienced a major data breach. The genealogy and DNA testing website announced Monday that over 92 million account details were found on a private server. According to the company, the breached occurred on October 26th, 2017.
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Infographic: Poor Password Hygiene is Letting Cybercriminals Clean Up!
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Infographic: Poor Password Hygiene is Letting Cybercriminals Clean Up!
As much as you would like to say you are different, many of us are guilty of bad password hygiene. We use the same password across multiple accounts, don’t update our passwords as much as we should, and we create and use weak passwords out of convenience. The Reason: We know how unsafe it is, but...
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Customer Experience is Driving Digital Transformations
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Everywhere you look, companies are adopting digital transformations in the hopes of changing their business models and competing in the reality of the new market. What’s interesting in this new trend, is that the change is being driven by the customer. Today, customers expect relevant content tha...
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Facebook Suspends 200 Apps During their Data Privacy Investigation
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At least 200 apps have been suspended from Facebook amidst a data privacy investigation that CEO Mark Zuckerberg launched after the Cambridge Analytica scandal in March. The announcement came on Monday morning, nearly two months after Zuckerberg said that Facebook would investigate all the apps t...
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A LoginRadius Adventure! The Vancouver Team Cleans the Seawall
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Cleaning... we all have to do it, whether it's spring cleaning or just your regular unload-the-dishwasher-for-the-fifth-time-today cleaning. What we tend to forget, however, is taking the time to help clean up our shores. After all, the environment always benefits when communities and individuals...
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GDPR Compliance: The Clock is Ticking
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GDPR Compliance: The Clock is Ticking
With the GDPR deadline rapidly approaching (May 25th to be exact), a new Compliance Report shows that only 40% of organizations have met compliance requirements or are on their way to becoming so by the deadline. This means that there is still a huge number of businesses that need to wake up to t...
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How to Download Your Facebook Data
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How Facebook handles and treats users personal information has been a central topic of conversation the past few weeks. Last week, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s chief executive, answered questions in Congress about data privacy and his responsibilities to users.
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The Death of Credit Card Signatures
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The New York Times reported today that four of the largest credit card networks, American Express, Discover, Mastercard and Visa will stop requiring signatures to complete credit card transactions. This centuries old method of verifying a person’s identity is going the way of video tapes and CDs.
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Under Amour Praised For How They Managed Data Breach
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Under Amour Praised For How They Managed Data Breach
As many of you might have heard already, Under Armour recently suffered a data breach that compromised the personal information of 150 million MyFitnessPal accounts. Something you might not have heard, is that many leaders in the security industry are actually applauding how Under Armour has both...
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How GDPR Will Affect Companies That Use Data To Target Customers
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How GDPR Will Affect Companies That Use Data To Target Customers
Michael Komasinski, the President of EMEA for Merkle, a global data-driven performance marketing agency, was recently interviewed by ExchangeWire. In the interview he discussed the challenges of the upcoming GDPR regulations, why a customer-centric approach is key, as well as future trends we can...
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The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Meltdown: How to Update your Privacy Settings
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In case you haven’t heard yet, millions of users unknowingly handed over their personal information to an outside company through Facebook. What about privacy settings? Unfortunately, due to a Facebook policy at the time, the company was able to obtain data from 50 million Facebook users without ...
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The Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Meltdown: Why GDPR is the Solution
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Did you hear about the Facebook Data Breach? Actually it wasn’t a data breach. According to the reports, the personal information of over 50 million Facebook users was freely provided and then handed over to a third party without permission  - is that scarier? In a nutshell, what happened is that...
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Top 5 Business Objectives That cIAM Solves
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The marketplace is changing; customer expectation is now astronomical in terms of the user experience. Businesses are now having to focus on transformational initiatives in order to remain competitive regardless of industry. One way to accomplish a digital transformation, and provide customers wi...
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How EU Citizens Are Using Their “Right to Be Forgotten”
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Should people have the right to have outdated, inaccurate, and possibly embarrassing information about them removed from the internet? In 2014, The European Court of Justice ruled that EU citizens had the Right to Be Forgotten, or as Google puts it, “the Right to Be Delisted”.
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Identity Fraud Hits All-Time High in 2017
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Despite years of battling, and a massive change in the way American's use debit and credit cards, the rate of identity fraud has soared in 2017. According to Javelin Strategy & Research's annual Identity Fraud Study, the number of identity fraud victims in the United States has increased by 8%.
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