Oriana Pawlyk reports: An updated software tool coming Friday will warn you if you include personally identifiable information in your Microsoft Outlook emails. The Air Force is launching the tool — the Digital Signature Enforcement Tool, or DSET version 1.6.1 — on its main computer network in hopes of reducing accidental breaches. Read more on…
Category: Breaches
Buffett’s NetJets Sued by Pilots Claiming Privacy Breach
Andrew Harris reports: The luxury aviation business owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of illegally snooping on its unionized pilots during a labor dispute. NetJets Inc. officials gained access to the pilots’ private message board and in a September meeting a company lawyer revealed she had “multiple pages of…
Is Uber’s rider database a sitting duck for hackers?
Craig Timberg reports: Before #Ubergate recedes entirely from the news, let’s pause on one aspect of the story that hasn’t gotten much attention so far: the cybersecurity risk of collecting massive troves of private travel information in online databases. Imagine for a second that your job is to gather intelligence on government officials in Washington, or financiers in London, or entrepreneurs…
Uber executive ‘disciplined’ for privacy violation after tracking the journey of a journalist took using ‘God View’ tool
Associated Press and Mail Online report: Uber Technologies has confirmed it has taken ‘disciplinary action’ against one of its general managers who was being investigating for violating the popular car-booking service’s privacy policies by snooping on a reporter’s ride. Josh Mohrer, general manager of Uber’s New York office, was accused of using a company tracking…