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STEPS FORWARD: How the Middle East led the U.S. to adopt smarter mobile security rules

The Last Watchdog

When it comes to securing mobile computing devices, the big challenge businesses have long grappled with is how to protect company assets while at the same time respecting an individual’s privacy. A few months later the United Arab Emirates stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.

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The Myth of Consumer-Grade Security

Schneier on Security

In his keynote address at the International Conference on Cybersecurity, Attorney General William Barr argued that companies should weaken encryption systems to gain access to consumer devices for criminal investigations. Before the Internet revolution, military-grade electronics were different from consumer-grade.

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MartyMcFly Malware: new Cyber-Espionage Campaign targeting Italian Naval Industry

Security Affairs

According to VirusTotal the software was “seen in the Wild” in 2010 but submitted only on 2018-10-12! I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. Stage4 is pretty interesting per-se.

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Breach Exposes Users of Microleaves Proxy Service

Krebs on Security

Microleaves , a ten-year-old proxy service that lets customers route their web traffic through millions of Microsoft Windows computers, recently fixed a vulnerability in their website that exposed their entire user database. pro , Hackforums , OpenSC , and CPAElites. Leftclick and online[.]io ” A teaser from Irish Tech News.

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The evolutions of APT28 attacks

Security Affairs

On one hand the delivery vector is often the only (or the first) artifact (such as: a Malware, a Link or exploit kit usage) that the cybersecurity analyst could observe. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. The original post is available on Marco Ramilli’s blog: [link].

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Top Database Security Solutions for 2021

eSecurity Planet

Starting our list of the top database security vendors is the multinational cloud computing company, Alibaba Cloud. As is true with any cloud service, the Seattle cloud computing company emphasizes the shared responsibility model. One such example is the addition of cloud computing service Microsoft Azure in 2008. Alibaba Cloud.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. If you think that your data has been anonymised, according to the computational privacy group at Imperial College, you will be wrong. We have become accustomed to the idea that some financial institutions are too big to fail.

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