Leveraging Knowledge to Manage Your Data Risks
The United States Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) admitted last week that personal information that it collected from travelers crossing the U.S. borders was exposed in a “malicious cyber-attack” against one of its vendors.
It is being reported that one of CBP’s subcontractors “illegally transferred” to its internal network almost 100,000 photographic images of travelers…
If you’ve flown domestically in the last year, you know the drill. Take off your jacket, belt, and shoes and place them in a bin. Remove your quart-sized bag of 3.4 oz liquids and place them on top. Pull out your laptop, iPad, e-reader, gaming device, and any other electronic device larger than a cell…
We previously reported that U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) has been stopping U.S. citizens at the borders of the United States and demanding passwords for access to mobile devices [view related post]. According to CBP, 19,051 mobile devices were searched at the border in 2016, which increased to 30,200 in 2017. All of…
