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U.S. Internet Leaked Years of Internal, Customer Emails

Krebs on Security

has a business unit called Securence , which specializes in providing filtered, secure email services to businesses, educational institutions and government agencies worldwide. Internet/Securence says your email is secure. Hold Security founder Alex Holden said his researchers had unearthed a public link to a U.S.

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Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango. Data Privacy Day began in the United States and Canada in January 2008 as an extension of Data Protection Day in Europe. However, with technology innovation comes new risks, security challenges and threats. Data privacy and security: a delicate balance. Why does it matter?

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Educating today’s information professionals to meet tomorrow’s challenges

IG Guru

Franks The Master of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) degree was launched in August 2008 in what is now the School of Information at San José State University. The post Educating today’s information professionals to meet tomorrow’s challenges appeared first on IG GURU.

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News alert: NCA’s Data Privacy Week webinars highlight data protection for consumers, businesses

The Last Watchdog

Throughout the week, NCA will emphasize the critical significance of digital privacy for both consumers and businesses through a series of educational webinars featuring experts from various industries. “Knowing how to safeguard your personal information has never been more important than it is today.

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GUEST ESSAY: Restore Us Institute (RUI) aims to protect Americans from online harms and crimes

The Last Watchdog

How did America and Americans regress to being much less secure than before the Internet? What everyone doesn’t know is how irrational the Internet’s utopian founding premises have proven to be concerning America’s and Americans’ security over the last quarter century. The first irrational security-related premise is that U.S.

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Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware

Security Affairs

Files are encrypted by Chacha 2008 ( D. ” The decryptor also supports the option to back up encrypted files, which is recommended by the security firm. “During the run, the ransomware generates a symmetric encryption key using CryptGenRandom() , which is the random number generator implemented by Windows CryptoAPI.

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New QBot campaign delivered hijacking business correspondence

Security Affairs

QBot has been active since 2008, it is used by threat actors for collecting browsing data and banking credentials, and other financial information from the victims. Kaspersky researchers warn of a new QBot campaign leveraging hijacked business emails to deliver malware.