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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. Containerizing data is a methodology that could anchor mobile security, in a very robust way, for the long haul.

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Microsoft sued North Korea-linked Thallium group

Security Affairs

The group is charges of violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act; federal trademark infringement, dilution, and false designation of origin; cyber squatting; com mon law trespass to chattels; unjust enrichment; conversion; intentional interference with contracts. 27 in the U.S.

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Regulating Privacy Across Borders in the Digital Age

Hunton Privacy

On November 10, 2010, the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law’s International Committee and Corporate Counseling Committee hosted a webinar on “Regulating Privacy Across Borders in the Digital Age: An Emerging Global Consensus or Vive la Difference?”.

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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. io (OIO) was going to upend the online advertising and security industries with its initial coin offering (ICO).

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Failure to Secure Wireless Network Defeats ECPA Claims

Hunton Privacy

A computer user’s failure to secure his wireless network contributed to the defeat of his claim that a neighbor’s unwelcome access to his files violated the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“ECPA”). The ECPA places restrictions on unauthorized interception of, and access to, electronic communications.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts? In this essay, Robert D.

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Weekly podcast: Yahoo hacker sentenced, acoustic DoS attack and GDPR compliance fails

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the sentencing of one of the perpetrators of the 2013 Yahoo breach, a new type of denial-of-service attack that can crash computers just using sound and how not to email your customers. He also hacked into a further 11,000 accounts between 2010 and his arrest in 2017. Here are this week’s stories. Acting U.S.

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