Scary Beasts Security

MARCH 21, 2014

It was an interesting exercise, of course with an ulterior motive! After this year, Tavis Ormandy's famous Flash security rampage landed (80+ fixes), with follow-up patches such as 7 fixes here. For example, the Internet Bug Bounty includes Flash as a category. I previously blogged about $10,000 example here.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 19, 2011

On May 16, 2011, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) adopted an Opinion on geolocation services on smart mobile devices (the “Opinion”). For example, it may be possible for a provider of geolocation applications and services to establish the precise location of a WiFi access point based on signal strength.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 21, 2022

There are also security concerns, such as to protect trade secrets or to avoid legal liability in the event of a workplace injury or incident. Fitbit and similar technology can be used to track employees’ exercise routines, with some companies even offering rewards like extra days off for good behavior. Benefits of Employee Monitoring.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In our manifesto at the general election we committed to provide people with the ability to require major social media platforms to delete information held about them, especially when that information related to their childhood. I wonder if other noble Lords share my feeling that this is a bad precedent and, if so, what we might do about it.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Both were well-equipped to teach, test and train individuals ranging from teen-agers and non-technical adults, to working system administrators and even seasoned tech security pros. Take, for example, 17-year-old Pinckney senior Aidan Ozias. Merit Network, by the way, is quite unique. My guess is that Gov.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

AUGUST 5, 2019

On 9 July 2019 the UK data protection authority (ICO) updated its Data Sharing Code of Practice (first published in 2011) (Code). A data sharing agreement helps the parties be clear about the purpose of data sharing and covers what happens to the data at each stage. Scope of application and aim. Specific data sharing cases.

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

The crash is of course deterministic and it would be possible to code the exploit to cater for arbitrary glibc binaries; this is left as an exercise for the reader. This 0day is more about fun than impact. So, for example, if you had a 200 byte input file, that would be 128 bytes of header and 72 bytes of ROM. distribution.

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Data Matters

JUNE 25, 2018

A period of relative calm with respect to matters of federal cybersecurity policy followed the issuance of EO 13800, as federal departments and agencies set about completing the various reports the Order assigned them. Recently, however, this relative calm abruptly ended with a flurry of cybersecurity-related activity. Botnet Report.

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