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Home › 2015
Year: 2015

Toymaker Hacked in Latest Data Breach

Posted on December 10, 2015 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Black Friday

On Black Friday, electronic toymaker VTech Holdings announced that it has been the victim of a data breach that compromised information about 4.8 million parents and 200,000 children. The Hong Kong-based company reported than an “unauthorized party” accessed data in…

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TalkTalk Not “Legally Required” to Protect Customer Data

Posted on October 27, 2015 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
TalkTalk

Cyberthieves recently hacked into British internet provider TalkTalk’s server and stole personal information on many of the company’s 4 million customers. A 15-year-old suspect has been arrested in the case. As pointed out by the Financial Times, …the arrest of…

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Banks Seek to Shift Data Breach Liability to Retailers

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog

On September 2, 2014 credit and debit card data stolen from Home Depot customers went on the online black market. Within three minutes from the time the data went on sale, $100,000 in fraudulent charges were made to cards issued…

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Hackers Take Control of a Moving Car; Fiat Chrysler Issues Recall

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Fiat Chrysler

Last week we posted a blog asking “What Could Be Worse Than Getting Your Bank Account Hacked?” Last week’s answer was having certain behavior you might not want your spouse to find out about (a profile on a website for…

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What could be worse than getting your bank account hacked?

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Ashley Madison hack

Practically every day we read about a major new data breach. Nothing seems safe – banks, retailers, even the government have been hacked, exposing our personal information. Many people think the worst thing that could happen data security-wise would be…

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Did Recycled Passwords Lead to Hack of Houston Astros?

Posted on June 27, 2015 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog
Houston Astros

Sometimes hackers need to use sophisticated techniques to get into computer networks. But sometimes the victims make it WAAAAAYYYY too easy – as this case may demonstrate. The Moneyball Hack As reported by the New York Times, the US Justice…

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An Inventor’s Perspective on Patent Reform

Posted on June 2, 2015 by Guy Fielder Posted in Blog, Patents and Inventing
Guy Fielder

Published by TheHill by Guy Fielder Congress has been trying to pass “patent reforms” that will stop “patent trolls.” Unfortunately, there’s a hidden agenda behind these “reforms.” There definitely are some bad apples out there – people who send spam…

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My patents are for invention, not litigation

Posted on April 27, 2015 by Barry Leff Posted in Patents and Inventing
The Hill

This article was published on The Hill, a leading news source for happenings in Congress. It was written by David Pridham, CEO of Dominion Harbor Group. It’s patent reform season in Congress again, and along with the warming weather comes…

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Does Apple Pay Make Financial Fraud Even Easier?

Posted on March 26, 2015 by Lauri Donahue Posted in Blog
Apple Pay

These days, you’d think that any company offering a new method of making financial transactions would have learned something from the thousands of data breaches in the past few years. (The top 20 breaches for 2014 are reported here.) Unfortunately,…

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Will 2015 be the “Year of the Health Care Hack”?

Posted on February 16, 2015 by Barry Leff Posted in Blog

Reuters is reporting that some security experts are predicting that 2015 will be the “Year of the Health Care Hack.” The year got off to a bad start, security wise, with the recent hack attack on Anthem, Inc., the number…

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