The companies say the information is crucial to sellers to assist with proper disclosure and to help buyers with their due diligence.
Not exact matches
Thousands of technology, finance and manufacturing
companies are working closely with U.S. national security agencies, providing sensitive
information and in return receiving benefits that include access to classified intelligence, four people familiar with the process
said.
Indeed, it's «a constant game of risk management,»
says founder Kamakshi Sivaramakrishnan, who also worked at Google but left in 2010 to launch Drawbridge, a
company that builds technology to connect users» screens and devices without relying on their personal security
information.
When the
company rolled out its app platform in 2007, the
company explained to users that when they installed an app they'd be able to share not only their own
information, but that of their friends as well, he
said.
She also
says that she'll release more
information about her
company when she determines it's time to do so, not when her competitors request it.
Dickie Brennan & Co., which operates four New Orleans restaurants, expects to pay more than $ 25,000 to replace card readers and software,
says Derek Nettles, the
company's
information technology director.
Twitter received only 2 % more government requests for user
information during the six months ending in June of this year than it did in the second half of 2015, the
company said on Wednesday.
A national survey recently conducted by Stroz Friedberg, an «intelligence and risk services»
company, found that 87 % of senior managers surveyed have put
company information at risk by uploading emails or files to personal accounts or cloud services in order to work remotely —
say, uploading a budget spreadsheet to their Dropbox account, or emailing a file to themselves so they can work on it at home.
She
says that it is the perfect system to use in case one would want to share
information, but are highly skeptical of other
companies or would want to keep a level of confidentiality to their own.
«Home Capital ran into problems with one of its mortgage brokers who gave it some bad
information,» he
said, referring to how the
company cut ties with 45 brokers after an internal investigation revealed borrower income and employment
information had been falsified in some instances.
The U.K.
Information Commissioner's Office
said Cambridge Analytica's demise won't stop its inquiry into the
company's practices.
The
company, which did work for U.S. President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign,
said it lost «virtually all» customers and suppliers as a result of reports that it improperly obtained
information from tens of millions of Facebook Inc. users.
Hastings
said that Netflix's open culture of
information - sharing among its employees makes it an «anti-Apple,» in that Apple witholds sensitive
information and product developments from many within its
company, Wired reports.
Yahoo's
information security team learned just days after the December 2014 breach that Russian hackers had stolen the
company's «crown jewels,» including email addresses, encrypted passwords and security questions, the SEC
said in a statement.
Some government contractors who handle sensitive
information are already required to report cyberbreaches, but there's still no uniform requirement for all
companies doing business with the federal government, Bosco
said.
That
said, isn't a
company that has expanded the ways and means in which people access all that
information and data on the internet just as valuable as the
company that organized it and did nifty things with it?
Massachusetts» attorney general has already
said she would investigate Facebook over the matter while a coalition of 37 state attorneys has sent Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg a letter urging him disclose more
information about his
company's data collection and security practices.
Finally, Traversa
says, work with an online clipping service or
information monitoring
company to spot
information about your
company that could potentially be harmful.
Waffle House
said in a statement on Monday that, while the
company is still «obtaining and reviewing
information,» «the
information we have received at this point differs significantly from what has reportedly been attributed to Ms. Clemons.»
«My goal has always been to give everyone at Sharethrough as much
information, context and room to care as much as I do as a founder,»
says Dan Greenberg, CEO of Sharethrough, an ad - tech
company that creates software for publishers and brands and is considered a trailblazer in the native - advertising movement.
Common requests include finding
information on corporate websites, exploring new products and vetting potential employees or business contacts,
says Sue Kramer Harrawood, president of Peace of Mind Virtual Assistance, an Orland Park, Ill., firm that provides
companies with virtual assistants.
The
company said that debit card
information will be stored by Square and that Square will process the payments, transferring money between bank accounts.
100 customers who bought Wetherspoon vouchers online have had their credit and debit card
information stolen, but the
company says the data accessed was «extremely limited» — only the last four digits of the card were visible.
«We don't build any user profiles,» Federighi
said about the
information that online
companies typically collect about user activity, including the sites they visit and what they search for.
As even more employees download work - related
information and data onto their personal phones, these three factors are conspiring to make
company data a potential casualty of biometric technology's legal protection problem, Bond
says.
It's this last point that has the biggest effect on private versus public
company returns,
says Tim McPeak, director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a
company that studies financial
information of privately held
companies.
«If all it takes is a fingerprint swipe by an employee, at that point the control of the
information is out of the hands of the
company,» Bond
says.
In a recent study by PR and marketing firm Cone Communications, 46 percent of respondents
said they'd like to be able to solve problems and receive product or service
information via new media, but only 14 percent
said they're «very satisfied» with their experiences with
companies or brands online.
Cloud - based business software
company Salesforce
said Tuesday that a particular type of malware that usually goes after
information at large financial
companies could be taking aim at its users.
«The U.S. healthcare industry has been and continues to be the most inefficient industry on the planet,»
says Dean Stephens, CEO of health - tech
company Healthline, a health -
information site with millions of monthly visitors.
He
said the
company is leading the way in «differential privacy,» a field that, in his words, «uses hashing, sub-sampling, and noise injection to enable this kind of crowdsourced learning while keeping the
information of each individual user completely private.»
For more than half of us, convenience trumps privacy: Fifty - five percent of respondents surveyed
said they would share
information with
companies in order to use online services for free.
PARIS — Better
information - sharing between countries, law enforcement agencies, financial services
companies and the tech industry will help combat financing for the Islamic State group and al - Qaida, a senior international official
said Thursday.
Senator Bill Nelson
said «only stiffer enforcement and stringent penalties will help incentivize
companies to properly safeguard consumer
information.»
There are at least a dozen statutes, similar to the Fair Credit Reporting Act, which govern how
companies gather, share, or sell consumer
information, legal experts
say.
While
company officials
said they did not believe the
information had been used to access Tumblr accounts, the site did require all users to reset their passwords immediately.
The three
companies we spoke with all
said they've created safeguards so that even if there's a security breach, your genetic
information and names aren't connected.
While the price tag for stolen
information on the black market can translate to a lucrative sales career for some crooked employees, it's a costly phenomenon for organizations once they have realized it has occurred, which is often «during forensic examination of user devices after individuals left a
company,»
said Verizon.
Verizon (vz) has had preliminary briefings from Yahoo (yhoo) but it still needs «significant
information» from the
company before it makes a final decision on the materiality of the hacking of at least 500 million email accounts, Silliman
said.
Facebook's Kendall
says the
company is working to include more
information in its reporting tools.
Unfortunately, Oculus
says that the Gear VR just isn't powerful enough to do any augmented reality in real - time, so there probably won't be any Hololens - like applications providing
information about the world around you anytime soon — although that doesn't mean that other
companies won't try to create it in the near future.
Gotlieb clarified that nobody at GroupM believes the
company should be giving away personally identifiable
information, but
said that the practice of grouping and labeling a swath of individual consumers, known as audience profiling, «should be used as a good» to show consumers ads they are more likely to find useful.
United Airlines spokesperson Maddie King
said «I can confirm it was not a breach,» like a hack, but did not give more
information,
saying the
company does not discuss security procedures.
The pipeline's owners, Plains Midstream Canada,
said that loose soil and a bad weld were to blame for the spill, but now that the
company has applied to reopen the pipe, scientists are looking for more
information.
The
company said it will now require less
information from users flagging inappropriate content and that it will be easier to submit tweets and accounts for review, even when wrongful behavior is simply observed and not received directly.
The thieves did not steal financial
information such as Social Security or payment card numbers, the
company said.
The Massachusetts - based Formlabs doesn't release
information on the number of printers it has sold, the number of customers it has sold printers to, or
company revenue figures, but Lobovsky did
say the
company employs 120 people full - time now and that its customers have printed more than one million parts total.
Facebook's data - use policy
says the Menlo Park, California,
company can deploy user
information for «internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research and service improvement.»
The Securities and Exchange Commission
says they used leaked
information from the Public
Company Accounting Oversight Board to pass inspections.
Beth Jacob resigned effective today as chief
information officer, the
company said in a note to its employees.