Tom Merritt tells us the things that are getting in the way of autonomous car adoption. Someday we will live in a wonderland of cars that drive themselves. You’ll walk out the door, the car will arrive, open the door for you, you get in, and it whisks you everywhere you need to go. Today is not that day. Yet. But we’re getting closer. So what’s in the way? Here are five autonomous car roadblocks…

Roadblocks to autonomous cars: Top 5 Length: 2:25 | Aug 31, 2021 Tom Merritt tells us about the things that are getting in the way of autonomous car adoption. Source link

  As small and medium businesses begin to re-open following the pandemic, it’s important to do so securely in order to protect customer’s payment card data. Too often, data breaches happen as a result of vulnerabilities that are entirely preventable. The PCI Security Standards Council (PCI SSC) has developed a set of payment protection resources for small businesses. In this 8-part back-to-basics series, we highlight payment security basics for protecting against payment data theft. Today’s…

The Indonesian government is exhorting the public to delete a COVID-19 test and trace app that left users’ personal information exposed on an unsecured server.   The data breach in the Indonesian government’s electronic Health Alert Card (eHAC) program was discovered by a research team at vpnMentor led by Noam Rotem and Ran Locar.  The program and the eHAC app were created in 2021 to monitor the coronavirus infection status of people entering the country. Obtaining an eHAC was mandatory…

Authentication sans password is already possible and solutions are on the market from companies like Ping Identity. With passwords passé, it’s time to make the leap to better security. Passwords have been the gold standard in computer security for decades, but they have an obvious problem: If someone gets your password they can access all of your personal data.  We’ve known for some time that passwords are nearing the end of their usefulness, and a…

The largest independent group of physicians in Illinois is notifying hundreds of thousands of patients that their personal information may have been exposed. DuPage Medical Group (DMG) said that patient data could have been compromised when its computer network was hacked last month.  On Monday, DMG announced that it would be mailing letters to 600,000 patients to warn them of the potential threat to their data’s security. Patient information that may have been accessed by…

Expert: Information management can also lead to a massive value proposition in being able to tap into governed data for business insights. TechRepublic’s Karen Roby spoke with Kon Leong, CEO and co-founder of ZL Technologies, a data management company, about data privacy and governance. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation. Karen Roby: Kon, it’s been said many times before when talking about enterprise tech and privacy legislation, that if it hasn’t started…

Data compliance: “The world is still waking up to the challenges ahead,” expert says Length: 9:48 | Aug 31, 2021 Bringing together siloed data from all parts of the business is a huge challenge to IT departments when meeting compliance requirements. Source link