IT Governance

MAY 14, 2019

If you’ve recently had a missed call on WhatsApp from a number you didn’t recognise, cyber criminals might be spying on you. The breach was discovered earlier this month, and WhatsApp released an update addressing the issue on Friday. The messaging service is now urging users to install the patch to ensure they don’t fall victim.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Then they moved the conversation away from the platform to encrypted messaging apps like WhatsApp. The spear phishing campaigns have targeted engineers and technical support operators, and the cybercriminals have pretended to be IT recruiters. They used LinkedIn to connect with the victims and gain their trust. Putty) and networking tools.

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The Guardian Data Protection

MAY 23, 2023

But more than this, it could be a sign that generative AI technology as it exists now is fundamentally incompatible with existing and developing privacy and online safety laws in the EU. A number of existing laws, from GDPR to the Digital Services Act (DSA), may also be holding up the rollout of generative AI systems in the bloc.

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The Guardian Data Protection

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

User consent will be required before combining WhatsApp and Instagram account data Germany’s anti-monopoly regulator has ordered Facebook not to combine user data from its WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook apps without consent, after a major three-year investigation into potentially anti-competitive actions. Continue reading.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2021

The company is most active in the area of communications technology. One of the most disturbing symptoms reported by the Gigaset users is the sending WhatsApp and SMS messages, in some cases WhatApp suspended the accounts for suspicious activity. Gigaset manufactures DECT telephones. ujm0317 BBQ browser.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 19, 2021

The FCA acknowledges that the COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant and, in some cases, long-lasting impact on how businesses are run, with changes to technology and increased homeworking. The FCA concludes by stating that there is no specific restriction on the technologies or applications that firms can use for communications.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2019

Media File Jacking – Security researchers at Symantec demonstrated how to manipulate media files that can be received via WhatsApp and Telegram Android apps. Popular apps like WhatsApp and Telegram allow users to choose where to store the file. The issue could potentially affect many other Android apps as well.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The inquiries concerned the Irish Credit Bureau DAC, WhatsApp Ireland Ltd (cross border inquiry), MOVE Ireland, the Teaching Council of Ireland and Limerick City and County Council. Our analysis of the WhatsApp decision can be read here. The Annual Report highlights five large-scale inquiries concluded throughout the year.

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Schneier on Security

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

On Tuesday of this week, lawyers Nate Cardozo, of the privacy watchdog Electronic Frontier Foundation, and Robyn Greene, of New America's Open Technology Institute, announced they also are going in-house at Facebook. I know these people.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Now it’s more likely to be in the form of leading KIM support for public inquiries like Grenfell and Covid, all the while contending with new technology and balancing simultaneous demands for corporate transparency and personal privacy. Technology has revolutionised sharing, but it brings new challenges. “At

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

.” NSO Group, which was founded in 2010, over the years has pushed back at criticism of Pegasus and its other software products, arguing that the technology is a tool to enable governments to protect themselves and their citizens against terrorists and other criminals. ” NSO Group Faces Skeptics.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 28, 2020

Some of this threats came from an anonymous account in Facebook and two messages were received by WhatsApp. On February 24th, the Ministry of Transport, Communications and High Technologies via their National CERT (cert.az) sent a mail to Fikret Huseynli, editor of TimeTV.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 21, 2021

They also can grab conversations that occur on such social media apps as WhatsApp. Apple, which for years has loudly touted the security of its iPhones, is coming under pressure to work more closely with other device makers to push back against technology like Pegasus. Apple Under Fire. … This is a global concern.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 1, 2019

This article points out that Facebook's planned content moderation scheme will result in an encryption backdoor into WhatsApp: In Facebook's vision, the actual end-to-end encryption client itself such as WhatsApp will include embedded content moderation and blacklist filtering algorithms.

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IBM Big Data Hub

DECEMBER 15, 2023

The rise of artificial intelligence New technologies will drive the future of customer service. Machine learning helps create smarter workflows, so customer service representatives can better-utilize technology to solve customer issues more efficiently. They’ve built up impressive stores of customer data over time.

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The Texas Record

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Let’s see what folks in the RIM community have been saying about text messages… “ Texas Quietly Updates Records Laws to Include Personal Devices “ — Government Technology. Officials Using WhatsApp For City Business May Skirt Open Records Laws ” – WAMU 88.5. I don’t know if I agree that S.B.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2021

“While NSO Group regularly attempts to discredit reports of abuse, their customer list includes many notorious misusers of surveillance technology. However, NSO Group has successfully exploited other messaging apps in the past to deliver malware, such as WhatsApp. ” concludes the report. Pierluigi Paganini.

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eDiscovery Daily

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Uber Technologies, Inc.: Ephemeral messages counteract these issues by disappearing shortly after the recipient has read the message. [1]. Platforms with disappearing messages: Snapchat. Court Cases Involving Ephemeral Messaging. Waymo, LLC v. In this trade secrets case, Uber’s usage of Wickr and Telegram became a discovery headache.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

In Pricey Facebook Deal for WhatsApp, Two Strong-Willed CEOs — WSJ. But WhatsApp will continue to operate independently from Facebook. Can Someone Explain WhatsApp’s Valuation To Me? walks through the logic for WhatsApp’s value when most of what it’s solving for is “carrier stupidity.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 16, 2020

T-Mobile President of Technology Neville Ray provided updates on the incident via Twitter. Alternate services like WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage, Facetime etc. .” reads the post published by T-Mobile. Teams continue to work as quickly as possible to fix the voice & messaging problems some are seeing. are available.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Take advantage of how technology is levelling the playing field Technology has broken barriers and created greater access to opportunities in other fields for years: education, healthcare, etc. When it comes to advancing careers, technology also plays a part.

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eDiscovery Daily

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Take advantage of how technology is levelling the playing field Technology has broken barriers and created greater access to opportunities in other fields for years: education, healthcare, etc. When it comes to advancing careers, technology also plays a part.

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Hunton Privacy

JULY 25, 2019

As part of the privacy program, which also covers WhatsApp and Instagram, Facebook must conduct and document a privacy review of every new or modified product, service, or practice before it is implemented. The order also requires Facebook to document security incidents when data of 500 or more users has been compromised.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Notably, the links planted by bad actors to register new victims contained a referral code tied to affiliates promoting the scam via Youtube and WhatsApp IM. The bad actors registered multiple fake domain names which had similar brand spelling then promoted them via social media and instant messenger apps to attract investors.

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Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2021

Physical Actions Lead to Data Breaches A small percentage of all the data breach incidents occur because of physical actions that don’t involve technology. The fraudsters also use phone calls, WhatsApp messages, and even SMS to trap their victims. Let us look at some of the most common causes of data breaches and ways to prevent them.

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Security Affairs

JULY 25, 2019

Experts at Lookout discovered a new Android mobile spyware in the wild, dubbed Monokle, that was developed by a Russian defense contractor named Special Technology Centre Ltd. ( Petersburg, Russia-based company, Special Technology Centre, Ltd. ( ” Special Technology Centre Ltd. ( Presidential election.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 28, 2019

The military responded by creating a category of military hardware called COTS: commercial off-the-shelf technology. And a lot of battle-hardened technologies are the same computer hardware and software products as the commercial items, but in sturdier packaging. More consumer products became approved for military applications.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Singapore presented the Operational Technology (OT) Cybersecurity Masterplan. Expert disclosed details of remote code execution flaw in Whatsapp for Android. Teheran: U.S. has started ‘Cyber War against Iran. Tridium Niagara framework affected by 2 flaws in BlackBerry QNX OS.

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IT Governance

JULY 19, 2018

In a press release , the chair of the RCS’s Commission on the Future of Surgery, Richard Kerr, criticised the NHS’s continued reliance on the “archaic” technology. For too long NHS capital spending on facilities and technology has been pared back in order to keep services going,” she said. The drawbacks of using “archaic” technology.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 16, 2019

Israeli Group Exploited WhatsApp to Spy on Users. But what about the risks that digital transformation strategies and technologies bring with them? . » Related Stories Report: Companies Still Grappling with IoT Security Podcast Episode 141: Massive Data Breaches Just Keep Happening. We Talk about Why.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

This software exploits zero-days in popular applications (and installed by default) such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, or iMessage. It implies that developers only use robust technologies they master, not trendy frameworks that can raise security issues when misconfigured or not properly implemented. They already have backdoors.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Pegasus performs zero-click hacks by exploiting security flaws in popular applications installed by default on iOS and Android, such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Skype, or iMessage. NSO’s Business Model Spreads.

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The Security Ledger

MAY 22, 2019

But security technology is stuck in the past. » Related Stories Researchers Hack Aircraft Landing System with $600 Radios Spotlight Podcast: Managing the Digital in your Digital Transformation Israeli Group Exploited WhatsApp to Spy on Users. But security technology is stuck in the past. In our second.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, accusing it of using a flaw in its messaging service to conduct cyberespionage on journalists and activists. WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. The lawsuit filed by WhatsApp in U.S.

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

Some of these requirements are likely to require OP organisations to make substantial investments in new technology, processes and procedures. The examples given are major global technology companies (e.g. Only Fans), online blogging or forum sites (e.g. Apple, Google and Amazon) and media sharing platforms (e.g.

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Reltio

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

The way companies evaluate and implement enterprise technologies has changed significantly over the past decade. A New Technology Culture. In offering a fully-functional free-tier product, technology vendors are doing four things: Building Customer Relationships. Building Trust.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 18, 2024

Chatbots are everywhere, providing customer care support and assisting employees who use smart speakers at home, SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Slack and numerous other applications. Gone are the days of prompts like “Press 6 to connect to customer service.” ” The advantages of chatbots surround us.

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