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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Krebs wrote for The Washington Post between 1995 and 2009 before launching his current blog KrebsOnSecurity.com. ICYMI, Equifax forced to pull offline a huge database of consumer data guarded only by credentials "admin/admin" [link] — briankrebs (@briankrebs) September 13, 2017. Bruce Schneier | @schneierblog.

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Inside ‘Evil Corp,’ a $100M Cybercrime Menace

Krebs on Security

From 2009 to the present, Aqua’s primary role in the conspiracy was recruiting and managing a continuous supply of unwitting or complicit accomplices to help Evil Corp. Treasury Department says Yukabets as of 2017 was working for the Russian FSB , one of Russia’s leading intelligence organizations. indep: Yeah. indep: Greetings.

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MY TAKE: A primer on how ransomware arose to the become an enduring scourge

The Last Watchdog

A survey of local media reports by Recorded Future tallied 38 ransomware attacks against cities in 2017, rising to 53 attacks in 2018. And fully 91% of poll takers said their clients had been hit by ransomware in the past 12 months, with 40% reporting more than six separate attacks during the past year. mayors attending the U.S.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Should privacy be considered a “burden” under the proportionality analysis required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26(b)? 3 As a result, an emerging consensus of courts and commentators has concluded that privacy interests may — and indeed, should — be considered as part of the proportionality analysis required under Rule 26(b)(1).

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Privacy as a “Fundamental Right” Clouds Smart Regulation

Data Matters

*Originally Published July 12, 2018 by Chambers and Partners Data Protection & Cyber Security 2018. In December 2009, with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty, the EU’s Charter of Fundamental Rights guaranteed both privacy and data protection as two of the Charter’s 50 enumerated fundamental rights.

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