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Authorities in California’s Orange County have launched a new initiative to help the public identify and report cyber-threats. SafeOC is a localized version of the national ‘If You See Something, Say Something’ anti-terrorism public awareness campaign that emphasizes the importance of reporting suspicious items and behaviors to law enforcement. A website and a social media account have been created to support the campaign. The website provides examples of suspicious cyber-activity and online threats, including configuration changes to…

By Jeff Fochtman, Senior Vice President of Business and Marketing at Seagate Technology Recall the last time you were behind the wheel of a vehicle. Let’s assume the best-case scenario: the road and weather conditions were smooth. Maybe your journey revealed ocean-coast vistas on a sunny day. Still, another factor invariably loomed: unpredictability. Because it is annoyingly impossible to know what’s literally around the corner, car manufacturers are focused on developing tools that preempt and…

A Swiss secure storage company has launched a creative cybersecurity awareness campaign to show how hackers gather personal data from social media. The campaign by pCloud uses a fake influencer account on Instagram (@thealiceadams) to highlight how users unintentionally give away pieces of sensitive data through their bios and the content they post.  “Through what we share online, the pictures we post and the locations we tag, hackers and criminals can guess your password in seconds, putting your identity…

By Milan Shetti, CEO Rocket Software The Bank of New York Mellon (BNYM) is the world’s largest custodial bank and asset servicing company, with offices in 35 countries. Custodial banks are different from traditional commercial banks and as such they go to market differently to meet their customers’ specific needs. Michael King, Director of Enterprise Data Governance for BNYM, spoke at Rocket and ASG’s user conference, EVOLVE21, where he described their role as a “banker’s…

An association for online advertising companies has been fined hundreds of thousands of dollars for developing an ad-targeting tool that violated European Union data laws.  The Belgian Data Protection Authority (BE DPA) said it was necessary to impose “harsh sanctions” on IAB Europe because the association’s Transparency and Consent Framework (TCF) “could, for a large group of citizens, lead to a loss of control over their personal data.” The TCF tool allows online publishers and websites to obtain users’…

James McGlennon is executive vice president and CIO at Boston-based Liberty Mutual, the sixth-largest property and casualty insurer in the world, with more than 45,000 employees operating in 29 countries. McGlennon and his team are responsible for building, managing, maintaining and innovating the company’s global technology portfolio. And like many IT leaders, McGlennon has been on a journey to reimagine IT to support a new era of business productivity, a move accelerated and shaped by the…