Schneier on Security

MAY 24, 2022

Following a recent Supreme Court ruling , the Justice Department will no longer prosecute “good faith” security researchers with cybercrimes: The policy for the first time directs that good-faith security research should not be charged.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 20, 2023

“So, when the individual first signs up for phone service, this information is automatically shared by the phone provider to partner companies.” “So, when the individual first signs up for phone service, this information is automatically shared by the phone provider to partner companies.” This should bother you.”

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 18, 2024

On January 3, 2024, the New York Department of Financial Services announced a consent order with GGT, where GGT agreed to pay NYDFS $8 million and to surrender its BitLicense (for cryptocurrency trading), due to alleged violations of NYDFS’ cybersecurity and its virtual currency regulations.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 19, 2020

Zoom’s high growth rate and “software as a service” business model guaranteed fantastic future profits, and investors rewarded the company by driving its stock up even further. As the virus forced the world inside, demand for Zoom’s services skyrocketed, and the company became a household name nearly overnight.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

This week saw some repeat products from previous vulnerability recaps, such as Ivanti Policy Secure and JetBrains TeamCity servers. Orca Publishes Study on Issues in Azure HDInsight Third Parties Type of vulnerability: Privilege escalation and denial of service. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2024-23917. through 2023.11.2.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2020

The United Kingdom’s anti-cybercrime agency is running online ads aimed at young people who search the Web for services that enable computer crimes, specifically trojan horse programs and DDoS-for-hire services. For example, search in Google for the terms “booter” or “stresser” from a U.K.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 6, 2021

Curiously the announcement comes a few days after the company has updated its Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. ,, “Respect for your privacy is coded into our DNA,” states WhatsApp’s privacy policy. “WhatsApp currently shares certain categories of information with Facebook Companies.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 13, 2023

The popular service, ChatGPT , is based on OpenAI ’s LLM, which taps into everything available across the Internet through 2021, plus anything a user cares to feed into it. Related: Can ‘CNAPP’ do it all? Maria Markstedter , founder of Azeria Labs , set the tone in her opening keynote address.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 26, 2021

Over the long term, VMCs, and the underlying Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) standards, could very well give rise to a bulwark against email spoofing and phishing. DigiCert is a Lehi, Utah-based Certificate Authority (CA) and supplier of Public Key Infrastructure services. Related: Dangers of weaponized email.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

For businesses operating in California or whose websites, products or services reach California residents, these changes mean new compliance obligations, some of which could require significant investments of time and resources. Just like the original version of CCPA, the Attorney General has sole enforcement powers (e.g.,

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Krebs on Security

MAY 26, 2023

Freenom is the domain name registry service provider for five so-called “country code top level domains” (ccTLDs), including.cf The volume of phishing websites registered through Freenom dropped considerably since the registrar was sued by Meta. Image: Interisle Consulting. for Tokelau.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

The 911 service as it exists today. For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States.

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Data Protection Report

JANUARY 5, 2021

The proposed rule would also affect companies that provide certain services to those banks, including data processing. The proposed rule would also affect companies that provide certain services to those banks, including data processing. Most importantly, note that this definition is NOT limited to personal information.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 5, 2023

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. Editor’s note: I recently had the chance to participate in a discussion about the overall state of privacy and cybersecurity with Erin Kapczynski, OneRep’s senior vice president of B2B marketing.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2022

Multiple Russian news outlets published stories on April 27 saying the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service had announced a plan to recruit IT specialists from Russian prisons to work remotely for domestic commercial companies. Image: Proxima Studios, via Shutterstock. “We are only at the initial stage.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

On October 28, 2021, the Federal Trade Commission announced the issuance of a new enforcement policy statement warning companies against using dark patterns that trick consumers into subscription services. They often appear in the context of negative option marketing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2024

Key recommendations for Financial Services to improve cybersecurity and resilience in multi-clouds madhav Wed, 01/17/2024 - 05:46 The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) will apply to the EU financial sector from 17 January 2025. As set out in its Article 2, DORA applies to the entire financial services sector.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 22, 2022

South Korea’s spy agency, the National Intelligence Service, estimated that North Korea-linked threat actors have stolen an estimated 1.5 Data published by the National Intelligence Service agency confirms a report published by South Korean media outlet Chosun early this year that revealed North Korean threat actors have stolen around $1.7

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The State AGs created a plan to initiate lawsuits alleging that consumers of certain online services are falsely led to believe that they can prevent the collection of their location data by changing their account and device settings, when the online services do not, in fact, honor such settings.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Covered Entities would be required to prominently display a privacy policy and terms of service that clearly and concisely communicate warnings about potential harms to child users, using language likely to be understood by an individual in the age range targeted by the product.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 12, 2023

A vulnerability management policy sets the ground rules for the process, minimum standards, and reporting requirements for vulnerability management. An effective vulnerability management policy can help with the cyclical process of discovering and managing vulnerabilities found within IT hardware, software, and systems.

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AIIM

MAY 30, 2023

Through this state norm, Colombia and all its public institutions have made substantial progress in document management and archives administration, so much so that it has been recognized nationally and internationally as a reference for several countries to develop their own legal frameworks on their public archive policies.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Plaintiffs suing under the pen register theory are claiming the use of certain software (such as website cookies, web beacons, pixels, script, or software code) that track a user’s location, search terms, browsing history or purchase history is akin to the use of a “pen register.” of the California Invasion of Privacy Act (“CIPA”).

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Privacy Computer and Electronics Communications IT 67

Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Act, which takes effect July 1, 2024, places new legal obligations on companies with respect to online products and services that are “likely to be accessed by children” under the age of 18. The Act is modeled on the UK’s Age-Appropriate Design Code. Requirements.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 19, 2022

The new “Administrative Regulations on Algorithm Recommendation of Internet Business Services” comes into force on 1 March 2022, and will introduce important rules on the use of algorithms when operating digital platforms/websites/apps – including targeted marketing – in China. Use of certain specified algorithms (e.g.

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AIIM

JUNE 9, 2020

In this series, we've been exploring the intersection of IIM policy and the law in order to help IIM practitioners and legal specialists work together more effectively by gaining a better understanding of the relationship between the two. So far, we've covered: Part 1 - IIM Policies and The Principle of Hearsay. I get that.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 10, 2024

Companies are implementing strict data retention policies to reduce the risk of data breaches and ensure compliance with laws and consumer expectations. What will 2024 hold, especially in the world of eDiscovery? This may change the roles of legal professionals by automating certain tasks, such as drafting and summarizing documents.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 23, 2022

Some cyber insurance policies help organisations cover the costs of lost business if the security incident results in long-term disruption. Policies have also historically included the cost of ransomware payments. Cyber liability insurance helps organisations cover the financial costs of a data breach.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 14, 2021

With organisations’ cyber security requirements becoming more complex and the threat of cyber attacks growing each year, many decision-makers are turning towards cyber security as a service. In this blog, we look at three other ways that cyber security as a service can benefit your organisation, and help you understand how the process works.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

Typically, these vulnerabilities result in remote code execution or denial-of-service attacks, posing major dangers to users’ data security. To mitigate these risks, users must promptly apply vendor-provided software patches and updates, as well as exercise vigilance when using online services and apps.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 18, 2024

Cloud storage is a cloud computing model that allows data storage on remote servers operated by a service provider, accessible via internet connections. It’s a scalable and cost-effective storage solution for businesses offered through a subscription service. Scalability & Infrastructure Scalable and flexible based on requirements.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Over time, business network needs, traffic patterns, and application access change. Auditing your firewall is one of the most important steps to ensuring it’s still equipped to protect the perimeter of your business’ network. Your business can either do the audit yourself or hire a firewall specialist vendor to perform one.

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IBM Big Data Hub

MAY 1, 2023

Along with the explosion of information technology in the 1950’s, the term ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) was coined by John McCarthy in 1956. I love the game of chess and was shocked when IBM’s Deep Blue chess-playing machine defeated the world chess champion in 1997. It has taken the world by storm.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

GoodRx assured consumers in its privacy policy that it would not share personal health information with advertisers, but would instead limit sharing for limited purposes like delivery of services (the pharmacist has to know this information to provide consumers the appropriate discount).

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Privacy Personal data IT Government 57

Data Protection Report

APRIL 27, 2023

In many ways this type of AI is very similar to prior AI in terms of development and structure. In terms of usage and adoption, OpenAI GPT models have likely already outstripped all other models to date, by multiple orders of magnitude. There have been many other ANNs prior to OpenAI’s models. See [link].

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CILIP

JANUARY 16, 2024

We work to support Heads of Library service and library staff in securing this. We work to support Heads of Library service and library staff in securing this. Key findings The report of Review addresses a number of ‘key challenges’ that emerged in discussion with library staff, leadership, users and advocates.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Cloud configuration management runs and regulates cloud configuration settings, parameters, and policies to streamline cloud services and assure security. Here are its main components: Cloud computing platform: The service provider impacts the available configuration tools and services, each with its own APIs and administration tools.

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