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GUEST ESSAY: NewsCorp hack shows cyber espionage, squelching of press freedom on the rise

The Last Watchdog

’ This firewall even goes as far as to block the latest versions of the encryption service TLS (v1.3) In a recent statement , the Foreign Correspondents Club of China (FCCC) commented, “Covering China is increasingly becoming an exercise in remote reporting, as China cuts off new visas and expels journalists.”

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FRANCE: CNIL publishes initial analysis on Blockchain and GDPR

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Encrypted data. How to ensure the effective exercise of the data subjects’ rights? This is why the CNIL strongly recommends the use of encryption in order to come as close as possible to ensuring an effective exercise of the data subjects’ rights.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6 CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

represented in its privacy policy that the Company used encryption and authentication tools to protect information but failed to encrypt the data (at rest) on its computer systems. The complaint also focuses on what the AGs allege was an “inadequate and ineffective” post-breach response.

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New SEC Cybersecurity Rules Could Affect Private Companies Too

eSecurity Planet

Our analysis will then need to consider what it will take to prepare to meet that request and how to communicate it clearly, without technical jargon, to our executives, to the board, and possibly to a judge and jury. This can be satisfied through periodic vulnerability scans, penetration tests, and asset-recovery exercises.

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Application modernization overview

IBM Big Data Hub

Modernization teams perform their code analysis and go through several documents (mostly dated); this is where their reliance on code analysis tools becomes important. applying this to applications in the scope of a modernization program—for a given industry or domain.

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NYDFS releases major update to Part 500 cybersecurity requirements for financial services companies

Data Protection Report

The new rules provide more details on how the senior governing body of the covered entity is expected to exercise oversight of its cybersecurity risk management. Incident response plans must now include (1) root cause analysis of the event, any business impact, and prevention measures; and (2) updates to the incident response plans as needed.