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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

In this instance, Kid Security failed to configure authentication for its Kafka Broker cluster, exposing at least 456,000 private social media messages, audio recordings, IP addresses, device locations, usage statistics and more for over a year. It’s also started automatically blocking bulk emails to help prevent spam and phishing campaigns.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

Significant changes have been made to sections covering remote access, privileged operations, user access levels and the use of multifactor authentication. NCSC CAF (Cyber Assessment Framework) 3.2 published The National Cyber Security Centre has published version 3.2 of its Cyber Assessment Framework.