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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. The Microleaves proxy service, which is in the process of being rebranded to Shifter[.[io.

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FRANCE: NEW GUIDELINES FOR COOKIES AND AN ACTION PLAN FOR ONLINE TARGETED ADVERTISING

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The French Data Protection Supervisory Authority (CNIL) has finally decided to replace its recommendations of 2013 which were no more compliant with the GDPR, by new guidelines. The adoption of the new guidelines is part of the action plan that the CNIL has implemented for 2019-2020 to provide clearer guidance to the marketing community.

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New French Law Authorizes the CNIL to Conduct Online Inspections

Hunton Privacy

Currently, the CNIL may conduct three types of investigations: On-site inspections – the CNIL may visit a company’s facilities and access anything that stores personal data ( e.g. , servers, computers, applications). In 2013, the CNIL conducted 414 inspections.

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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. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 1 June 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

This means imaging the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computing model to deliver transformative change. Gartner (2021) has two related definitions: Digital Transformation: “can refer to anything from IT modernization (for example, cloud computing), to digital optimization, to the invention of new digital business models.”

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Why Is TAR Like a Bag of M&M’s?, Part Two: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

The Grossman-Cormack glossary of 2013 used the phrase Coding” to define both TAR and PC and I think various parties then conflated the two. Marketing: the simple fact is that some vendors sell predictive coding tools. Ralph calls it the multi-modal approach: a combination of people and computers to get the best result.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

I am a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. This was not a minor vulnerability; the computer press at the time called it "critical." It confessed to another data leak in January 2017.