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News analysis Q&A: Shake up of the SIEM, UEBA markets continues as LogRhythm-Exabeam merge

The Last Watchdog

“These include difficulty keeping pace with market innovation and with the transition to the cloud.” LW: How difficult is it going to be for LogRhythm and Exabeam to align their differing market focuses; what potential conflicts are they going to have to resolve? Mellen : The combined entity should target the mid market and SMBs.

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UK ICO Publishes New Direct Marketing Guidance and Checklists

Hunton Privacy

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) recently published a package of detailed guidance and checklists for direct marketing activities. PECR applies to direct marketing activities even where personal data is not involved.

Marketing 108
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Marketers Have Given Up on Context, And Our National Discourse Is Suffering

John Battelle's Searchblog

Marketers – especially brand marketers: Too many of you have lost the script regarding the critical role you play in society. It’s time to rethink the relationship between marketers, media companies (not “content creators,” ick), and the audience. It’s getting complicated out there.

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UK ICO Fines Pensions Release Provider for Unsolicited Marketing Emails

Hunton Privacy

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) has issued a Monetary Penalty Notice to pensions release provider Grove Pensions Solutions Ltd (“Grove”), fining it £40,000 after the company used contact details collected by a third party for its direct marketing campaign. The fine was imposed under the Data Protection Act 1998.

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Russian Cybersecurity Executive Arrested for Alleged Role in 2012 Megahacks

Krebs on Security

In March 2020, the DOJ unsealed two criminal hacking indictments against Kislitsin, who was then head of security at Group-IB , a cybersecurity company that was founded in Russia in 2003 and operated there for more than a decade before relocating to Singapore.

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15-Year-Old Malware Proxy Network VIP72 Goes Dark

Krebs on Security

Like other anonymity networks marketed largely on cybercrime forums online, VIP72 routes its customers’ traffic through computers that have been hacked and seeded with malicious software. Between 2003 and 2006, Corpse focused on selling and supporting his Haxdoor malware. Image: Google Translate via Archive.org.

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A million at risk from user data leak at Korean beauty platform PowderRoom

Security Affairs

Established in 2003, PowderRoom is a South Korean beauty content platform connecting 3.5 Established in 2003, PowderRoom is a South Korean beauty content platform connecting 3.5 South Korean beauty content platform, PowderRoom, has leaked the personal information of nearly one million people.

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