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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Location Matters.

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

I held this position from 2000 through 2014, during which time Windows emerged as a prime target for both precocious script kiddies and emerging criminal hacking rings. Byron: Companies often underestimate threats, neglect basic cyber hygiene, and fail to educate employees on cybersecurity. What drew you to this field?

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Fourth Circuit Rules that Warrantless Cell Phone is Warranted: Data Privacy Trends

eDiscovery Daily

California in 2014 (which Tom O’Connor also discussed on our blog here ) that police generally can’t search the contents of a cellphone seized during an arrest, unless they get a warrant, according to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF). Supreme Court ruled in Riley v.

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Bad News: AI and 5G Are Expected to Worsen Cybersecurity Risks

Security Affairs

AI could also assist sectors that cybercriminals frequently target, such as the education industry. Cybercriminals know that entities in education have historically lacked cybersecurity resources , a problem that makes it easier to pull off successful attacks. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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FTC Announces Settlement Regarding Collecting Consumer TV Viewing Data

Hunton Privacy

The complaint alleged that VIZIO also provided viewers’ IP address information to data aggregators which facilitated the appending of specific consumer demographic information to the viewing data, including sex, age, income, marital status, household size, education level, home ownership and household value.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2020 – 8.8 billion records breached

IT Governance

Indonesia probes breach of data on more than two million voters (2.3 Online education site EduCBA discloses data breach after hack (unknown). LiveJournal finally discloses much-rumoured 2014 data breach (26,372,781). Truecaller denies data breach after its customers’ details end up on dark web (47.5

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The Problem With the Small Business Cybersecurity Assistance Act

Security Affairs

Small business owners are less likely to have taken adequate measures to protect their digital systems and are consequently at an even higher risk of sustaining a data breach or a ransomware attack than a major corporation. states are left on their own to fine companies which don’t take cybersecurity or client privacy seriously.