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New Zealand Security Bureau halts Spark from using Huawei 5G equipment

Security Affairs

According to New Zealand’s Government Communications Security Bureau, Huawei equipment for 5G infrastructure poses a “significant network security risk,” for this reason, it asked mobile company Spark to avoid using the equipment of the Chinese company. In 2008, New Zealand signed a free-trade deal with China.

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New FTC Blog Guidelines Affect Companies Without Blogs

Hunton Privacy

Largely absent from the commentary, however, have been observations regarding theories articulated in the amendments that demonstrate the risk of enforcement for companies that do not have a blog and that do not use third-party bloggers for promotion.

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Ebola and Other Health Emergencies Create Workplace Privacy Dilemmas

Hunton Privacy

Also, a very real risk exists that an infected employee on a manufacturing floor or otherwise in the chain of commerce could create a panicked boycott of the goods/services of their employer. No approach to these issues will be free from legal risk.

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Supreme Court Finds Lack of Standing to Challenge Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

Hunton Privacy

In the wake of FISC decisions that subjected the NSA’s surveillance program to FISC review and narrowed the scope of Bush’s authorization, Congress enacted the FISA Amendments Act of 2008. persons located abroad without requiring that the government show the target is a foreign power or agent thereof.

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Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

At its core, malware exploits existing network, device, or user vulnerabilities , posing as little a risk as annoying advertisements to the much more damaging demand for millions of dollars in ransom. Most device or software manufacturers place backdoors in their products intentionally and for a good reason. Backdoors.

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN MARKET

Info Source

“Imports have now recovered to pre-war levels, only now we import all consumer goods and manufactured goods from China, Turkey, Central Asia and the Emirates, and not from the West. Companies have lost much money by leaving Russia, but other companies that have stayed are risking more significant losses.

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APT Attacks & Prevention

eSecurity Planet

Manufactured BackDoor Vulnerabilities. Chinese APT groups used the PlugX RAT as early as 2008, but have modified the software into the ShadowPad RAT that exploits legitimate executables to launch the software and avoid detection. Also read: Top Vulnerability Management Tools.

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