Data Matters

OCTOBER 26, 2021

On 7 October 2021, the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ ICO ”), published its response to the UK government’s consultation entitled “Data: A new direction”. The ICO’s response to the UK government’s proposals further presents another pivotal moment for UK data protection law.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

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Data Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The ECJ also confirmed the existence of the procedural notification obligation foreseen in Article 3(4)(b) of the e-Commerce Directive. The post European Court of Justice Applies Free Movement Rules of E-Commerce Directive to Advertising by Mail-Order Pharmacy appeared first on Data Matters Privacy Blog.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. Among other news: B&Q breached the personal data of 70,000 people who had been caught stealing products from its stores.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The breached data includes names, addresses, emails, phone numbers, dates of birth, and financial account and Social Security numbers. Data breached: 16,924,071 individuals’ data.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While many network admins outsource the management of authoritative domain name system (DNS) infrastructure to a third party like IBM® NS1 Connect®, there is a sizable community of network operators who prefer to dig in and build something themselves. It just means that you should have a plan B if (or really, when) things go wrong.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 28, 2020

principal-protected securities). obtain a clear understanding of the data used to build and validate the model and thoroughly review all aspects of the model, including assumptions, adjustments, variables, and submodels used as input, and resulting output. These revisions are exposed for comment until January 11, 2021.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Let's assume there's no further context given, it's just your legitimate personal data and it also includes your phone number, email address. and over 400 other fields of data. This is a story about a massive corpus of data circulating widely within the hacking community and misattributed to a legitimate organisation.

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Data Matters

JUNE 26, 2020

Nevertheless, many oppose the initiative – including some proponents of the original CCPA – because it will rewrite much of the CCPA before Californians and the business community have much of an opportunity to see how it works. Data Minimization. Data Retention Disclosure. Proposed Cal. Code § 1798.100(a)(3).

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Elie

MARCH 31, 2019

Password checkup allows users to check, in a privacy-preserving manner, whether their username and password matches one of the more than 4B+ credentials exposed by third-party data breaches of which Google is aware. Accounts which are exposed via data breach are. times more likely to be compromised. , in part because.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 13, 2022

UK: To transition to a renewable energy system, we need to be smarter in the way we use our energy in our communities and in our homes. Smart Meters provide the data to support a cleaner future, showing how much energy is being used and how much this will cost you. Everybody's got their own little blog where they post stuff.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

They'd left a MongoDB instance exposed to the public without a password and someone had snagged all their data. Within the data were references that granted access to voice recordings made by children, stored in an S3 bucket that also had no auth. So, why didn't CloudPets respond to attempts to contact them?

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. The password protected password file clearly was not secure. And I was able to repeat the process over and over. This was a software flaw.

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ForAllSecure

MARCH 24, 2021

Anyway I was testing this suite when I happened to randomly strike two keys -- I think it was control and B -- and up popped the password manager, displaying all my test passwords in the clear. The password protected password file clearly was not secure. And I was able to repeat the process over and over. This was a software flaw.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 18, 2011

If there was a theme to Day One at Web 2 Summit , it was this: We have to start taking control of our own identity and data. But also because of the value and benefits that will accrue to us and to society in a culture that values individual control of data. You should be the protocol around which those things are built and data flows.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others?

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ForAllSecure

MAY 18, 2021

What if you discovered a flaw in a ransomware payment system that unlocked the data without paying the ransom? And he's right Ransomware is malware that blocks access to the data on a computer until a sum of money is paid. Failure to pay, and your data is encrypted forever. Would you use it? Would you help others?

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Intel 8271 (left) in an issue 3 BBC Micro model B There are very few easily discovered details about this chip online, aside from the useful datasheet. My interest in the chip was piqued when I accidentally triggered a wild test mode that managed to corrupt one of my floppy discs even though the write protect tab was present!

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beneath almost all of the testimony, the manifestoes, the blog posts, and the public declarations issued about AI are battles among deeply divided factions. Ruha Benjamin called her organization the Ida B. Wells Just Data Lab. The reality, unfortunately, is quite different.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Because it's an absolutely terrible idea, which brings me to the catalyst for this blog post: We don't allow users to pick passwords so that we don't store any of your sensitive information. So why doesn't every site take away the ability for people to choose their own passwords? There’s a reason for “pitchfork raising”!

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