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Uber Breach Guilty Verdict, Mandatory Password Expiration, Fake Executive Profiles on LinkedIn

Security Boulevard

Former Uber CSO Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing a federal investigation in connection with the attempted cover-up of a 2016 hack at Uber, NIST and Microsoft say that mandatory password expiration is no longer needed but many organizations are still doing it, and how fake executive profiles are becoming a huge problem for […].

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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

Some experts speculated that certain privacy laws and regulations could have been violated in the incident. Odds are more than one was breached here,” said Davisson. “I You can enable root access, but you have to jump through a lot of security hoops just to activate it,” noted Terry Dunlap, CSO and co-founder at ReFirm Labs.