Security News

Ransomware pounces on California schools, Las Vegas trounces attack
2020-01-10 10:43

First, the bad: over the holiday break, crooks who are so morally bankrupt that they target the organizations that serve children pounced on schools in the US city of Pittsburg, California. On Monday, the superintendent of Pittsburg Unified School District, Janet Schulze, put up a message about the ransomware attack on the district's Facebook page.

California’s Tough New Privacy Law and Its Biggest Challenges
2020-01-09 15:54

One of the bigger challenges with the CCPA is the question of tracking the location of that user data, Terry Ray, SVP and fellow with Imperva, tells Threatpost. So CCPA changes a little bit of it in that CCPA says, look, you know, we're not asking everybody to comply to this, we're asking people that are going to store what California considered a reasonable amount of data - 50,000 records - if you store more than that you're relevant to CCPA, you have to start thinking about how am I going to protect that data, monitor that data, find that data and ultimately deal with processes around the potential breach of that data.

California’s IoT cybersecurity bill: What it gets right and wrong
2020-01-09 06:30

California state lawmakers should be lauded for SB 327, their well-intentioned legislative attempt at tackling one of the most pressing issues in the tech sector: IoT security. To its credit, SB 327 - popularly known as the IoT security law - provides a good first step towards much-needed and extensive cybersecurity legislation: with an estimated 22 billion connected devices worldwide, the very existence of an IoT security law is encouraging.

California Adopts Strictest Privacy Law in U.S.
2020-01-02 17:38

A landmark privacy rights bill took effect Jan. 1, 2020 in California and will have broad implications for U.S. consumers and businesses. The California Consumer Privacy Act mandates strict requirements for companies to notify users about how their user data will be used and monetized along with giving them straightforward tools for opting out.

As US Congress Delays on Privacy, California Law in Focus
2019-12-23 12:50

As US lawmakers head home without agreeing on consumer privacy legislation, a new California law is set to become the de facto national standard, potentially leaving consumers and businesses...

Facebook Says Ready for New California Privacy Law
2019-12-12 19:20

Facebook on Thursday said it was ready for a data privacy law that will go into effect in its home state of California at the start of next year. read more

California IoT security law: What it means and why it matters
2019-11-20 06:30

In September, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a new bill aimed at regulating the security of IoT devices, and it’s set to go into effect in a few short months on January 1, 2020....

California’s Domino Effect on U.S. Privacy Regulation
2019-11-14 15:32

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which goes into effect Jan. 1, will have a longstanding impact on privacy regulation across the U.S., a security expert says.

Microsoft to honor California’s digital privacy law all through the U.S.
2019-11-13 13:27

In the absence of a federal digital privacy law, Microsoft has decided to comply with the requirements of California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) throughout the U.S. The CCPA in short The CCPA...

Microsoft says it will honor California’s new privacy law across US
2019-11-13 11:31

Microsoft said CCPA is good news, given the failure of Congress to pass a comprehensive privacy protection law at the federal level.