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Scott Ikeda is a technology futurist and blogger for more than 15 years. He travels extensively throughout Asia and writes about the impact of technology on the communities he visits. Over the last 5 years, Scott has grown increasingly focused on the future landscape of big data, surveillance, cybersecurity and the right to privacy.

Cyber Security

Recent Hacks Show That Even Tech-Savvy Universities Are Still Very Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

Scott Ikeda Apr 17, 2019 0

Put to the test, more than 50 U.K. universities were found to be very vulnerable to cyber attacks. Jisc's team of penetration testers were able to breach defenses in one to two hours with a 100% breach rate.

Cyber Security

The Phishing Scam That Took Google and Facebook for $100 Million

Scott Ikeda Apr 9, 2019 0

Posing as Quanta Computer, Lithuanian took $100 million from Google and Facebook through a phishing scam involving email spoofing and forged paperwork. How can companies protect themselves against business email compromise?

Cyber Security

New Toyota Data Breach Exposes Personal Information of 3.1 Million Customers

Scott Ikeda Apr 9, 2019 0

Toyota Motor Corporation has been the victim of a series of data breaches in Australia, Thailand, Vietnam and Japan over the past six months. Latest data breach in Japan has impacted 3.1 million customers’ information.

Cyber Security

Largest Leak in History: Email Data Breach Exposes Over Two Billion Personal Records

Scott Ikeda Apr 8, 2019 0

Thanks to some unsecured public-facing databases, Verifications.io email data breach has set a new record for leaking 2 billion personal records which can be useful for identity theft and scams.

Data Protection

The Latest Facebook Password Leak: Hundreds of Millions of User Passwords Exposed to Company…

Scott Ikeda Apr 1, 2019 0

Facebook password leak has exposed up to 600 million user's plaintext passwords to company employees. And this appears to have been ongoing since 2012. Will this add more fuel on the antitrust fire?

Data Protection

Will New U.S. Privacy Regulations Be Too Expensive for Small Businesses?

Scott Ikeda Mar 26, 2019 0

Recent study shows that 72% of U.S. small businesses support improvements to privacy regulations yet 52% also believe that there will be a negative impact to their business. And only 15% believe that policy makers will pass regulations that do not adversely affect small businesses.

Cyber Security

Massive Citrix Data Breach Thought to be the Work of Iranian Hackers

Scott Ikeda Mar 25, 2019 0

Citrix is the latest big name to fall victim to a major data breach. The data breach is thought to have been perpetrated by Iranian hackers in a group called IRIDIUM, which is believed to have ties to the country's government.

Cyber Security

New Data Breach Trends: Small Business Identity Records Now Target #1 for Hackers

Scott Ikeda Mar 20, 2019 0

New 4iQ report indicates that data breaches were up by over 420% from 2017, exposing a total of almost 15 billion identity records. Small businesses are being targeted much more frequently than previously thought and that even relatively tiny businesses are now on the menu for sophisticated hackers.

Cyber Security

Phishing Attacks: Now More Common Than Malware

Scott Ikeda Mar 19, 2019 0

The most recent Microsoft Security Intelligence Report indicates that phishing attacks are now by far the most frequent threat to the cyber landscape, increasing a massive 250% since the previous report.

Data Protection

Is Singapore Ready for Data Portability?

Scott Ikeda Mar 11, 2019 0

Singapore has recently introduced a discussion paper on data portability to will not only improve options and outcomes for consumers, but will also improve transparency in data collection. Will the ease of proliferation of this personal data among more companies lead to a simple statistical increased likelihood of data…

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