As a Rhode Islander, I am a big fan of our former Governor and now Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo. She has always had her eye on the ball of the rapidly developing data privacy and cybersecurity risks and threats to national security. She is showing her continued commitment to data privacy, cybersecurity, and the
AICPA Survey Shows U.S. Adults Worried About Identity Theft and Financial Fraud and Concerned Businesses Can’t Protect Their Data
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
A new Harris Poll for the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), which called 1,006 U.S. adults for the report, shows interesting statistics regarding American adults’ attitudes and fears about identity theft and financial loss as a result of cyber intrusions. The poll’s conclusion is that 48 percent of U.S. adults believe that identity theft will…
Another popular car broken into by security researchers
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Cybersecurity
We have kept abreast of the security vulnerabilities of cars that have been exposed by various security researchers [view recent posts here, here and here]. This time, researchers are asking Mitsubishi to recall approximately 100,000 Outlander hybrid vehicles as they were able to hack into the security of the car and remotely turn…