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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering — puts us one step closer to a working iO prototype. To explain why this is so, Sahai drew an analogy to the human brain.

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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. As in many other recent legislative proposals, the Commission also envisages stronger enforcement and supervision of the rules. Extended scope. see also our previous blogpost on the NIS Directive).

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EU: NIS2 enters into force

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Summary of key changes Extended scope – Under the previous NIS Directive, the obligations that applied to an entity depended on its qualification as an ‘operator of essential services’ (“ OES ”) or ‘digital service provider’ (“ DSP ”). NIS2 significantly expands the sectors and type of entities falling under its scope.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. 18, 2013, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that U.S. KrebsOnSecurity began revisiting the research into Rescator’s real-life identity in 2018, after the U.S.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. The report takes the information collected in these lists and summarises our findings.