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Top 5 Application Security Tools & Software for 2023

eSecurity Planet

Encryption: This protects sensitive data by converting it into a coded form that can only be accessed or decrypted with the appropriate key. Encryption ensures that data remains confidential and secure, even if intercepted or accessed by unauthorized parties.

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FRANCE: The CNIL provides further insights following its formal notices against the use of Google Analytics

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The setup of Google Analytics does not prevent the transfer of personal data outside the EU since all personal data collected via Google Analytics is hosted in the US.

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Stealc, a new advanced infostealer appears in the threat landscape

Security Affairs

Stealc is able to steal sensitive data from popular web browsers, browser extensions for cryptocurrency wallets, desktop cryptocurrency wallets and also information from other applications, such as email and messenger clients. Attackers can define a set of grabber rules to to steal specific files matching them.

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101 Problems and Schrems Ain’t One

Data Protection Report

The scanner uses more than 20 different data points derived from network metadata to scan and classify data flows based on mass surveillance risk under the NSA’s so-called “Upstream” and “Downstream” data collection programs. Identifies high risk data endpoints (in the US and elsewhere).

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Antlion APT group used a custom backdoor that allowed them to fly under the radar for months

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by the Broadcom-owned company Symantec. ” xPack allowed threat actors to run WMI commands remotely and mount shares over SMB to transfer data from C2 servers to them. The xPack backdoor is a.NET loader that fetches and executes AES-encrypted payloads, it supports multiple commands.

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How to implement the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

IBM Big Data Hub

To make data inventories more manageable, organizations can consider using data protection solutions that automatically discover and classify data. To ensure that consent is informed, the organization should clearly explain what it collects and how it will use that data at the point of data collection.

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ITALY: the Garante aligns with CNIL and DSB holding that the use of Google Analytics leads to unlawful transfer of Personal Data

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

intelligence services, which can therefore order Google to provide access to the data of European citizens (who browse the website). This concrete risk analysis is expressly provided in the new Standard Contract Clauses. Code § 1881(b)(4), which subjects the company to the surveillance of U.S.