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Man Behind Fatal ‘Swatting’ Gets 20 Years

Krebs on Security

Tyler Barriss , a 26-year-old California man who admitted making a phony emergency call to police in late 2017 that led to the shooting death of an innocent Kansas resident, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison. 28, 2017, Barriss placed a call from California to police in Wichita, Kan., Tyler Barriss, in an undated selfie.

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Calif. Man Pleads Guilty in Fatal Swatting Case, Faces 20+ Years in Prison

Krebs on Security

28, 2017, Barriss placed a call from California to police in Wichita, Kansas, claiming that he was a local resident who’d just shot his father and was holding other family members hostage.

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Avoiding, Managing And Responding To Cyber Incidents

Data Protection Report

In 2017, Equifax Inc, suffered a cybersecurity breach, with hackers able to access the personal data of around 13.8 Firms should seek to avoid barriers for customers hindering access to any incident pages set up – for example, cookies should not obscure key links or information.

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Leaked documents from Russian firm NTC Vulkan show Sandworm cyberwarfare arsenal

Security Affairs

The group is also the author of the NotPetya ransomware that hit hundreds of companies worldwide in June 2017. These projects include tools, training programs, and a red team platform for exercising various types of offensive cyber operations, including cyber espionage, IO, and operational technology (OT) attacks.”

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How to Package and Price Embedded Analytics

Just by embedding analytics, application owners can charge 24% more for their product. How much value could you add? This framework explains how application enhancements can extend your product offerings. Brought to you by Logi Analytics.

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Where Data Meets IP

Data Protection Report

1] Original compilations are often those where some degree of skill and judgement is involved when compiling the data in question, as opposed to merely re-arranging the data chronologically, for example. For example, data licenses allow businesses to share sensitive data with other parties while retaining a comfortable level of control.

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Update of Japan’s Privacy Law Approved by Cabinet

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

The reported goals of the bill include, for example: (i) broadening data subjects’ powers to exercise control over their data; and (ii) to establish a system to facilitate corporation’s internal use of “big data.” The last update came into force in May 2017.

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