Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The security researcher that handle the Twitter account Privacy First first reported the alleged unethical behavior and published a video that shows how the app harvest users ‘data. “The data collected was explicitly identified to the customer in the data collection policy and is highlighted to the user during the install.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

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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Communications Data collection Archiving Encryption 85

Security Affairs

JULY 1, 2021

About a week after scraped data from more than 700 million LinkedIn profiles were put for sale online , it seems that threat actors have no intention of stopping their abuse of the social media platform’s scrape-friendly systems. The archive was posted on the hacker forum for anyone to access. What was shared by the threat actor?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

rar archive files. CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2019 in more than 60 countries. In 2017, password-protected archives accounted for only 0.08% of all malicious objects.

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Adam Levin

JANUARY 18, 2019

The breached data, dubbed “Collection #1” by cybersecurity expert Troy Hunt , is more than 87 gigabytes and contains roughly 773 million email address and 21 million unique passwords. Hunt found an archive of the data on MEGA, a file-sharing site and has been featured on at least one hacking forum.

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The Security Ledger

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this week’s episode (#130): we speak with security researcher Troy Hunt, founder of HaveIBeenPwned.com about his latest disclosure: a trove of more than 700 million online account credentials he’s calling “Collection #1.” » Related Stories Podcast Episode 128: CES is cool but is it secure? They have.).

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

InMarket Digital marketing platform and data aggregator InMarket collected extensive personal data both through purchases of data as well as through the software development kit (SDK) that it licensed to software developers. Count II focused on the collection and use of consumer data from third-party apps.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

Every third email, meanwhile, contained spyware , which is used by threat actors to steal payment data or other sensitive info to then put it on sale in the darknet or blackmail its owner. Secure web- phishing. Opened email lets spy in. Pandemic chronicle.

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Unwritten Record

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Photograph of the Wright Brothers’ Camp in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,” Records of the US Army Air Forces, Record Group 18, National Archives Local Identifier: 18-WP-48625. According to the National Park Service, in 1900 the Wright’s contacted the U.S. They then had to address the increased weight of their flying machine.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 1, 2020

On November 26, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) announced that it imposed a fine of €2.25 million on Carrefour France and a fine of €800,000 on Carrefour Banque for various violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act governing the use of cookies.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

But another part involves fears about national security. There is definitely a national security risk in buying computer infrastructure from a country you don't trust. There is definitely a national security risk in buying computer infrastructure from a country you don't trust. This is a complicated topic. Our allies do it.

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IT Governance

MAY 30, 2018

Insurers are data controllers: a person, public authority, agency or body that determines the purpose of processing personal data. An insurer can also be a data processor if it receives data from a third party that it is not permitted to process for its own purposes. Steps insurers should take to become GDPR compliant.

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HL Chronicle of Data Protection

MAY 1, 2020

The primary use is the one for which the data is originally collected for a specific purpose, while the secondary use is an additional use for a different purpose (e.g., data collected and processed within the context of a medical consultation [primary use], and subsequently used for a certain scientific investigation [secondary use]).

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Security Affairs

MAY 27, 2020

The final ZIP archive may be encrypted and in some cases also protected by a password – credits ESET. An interesting point is that one day after data collection, on 2020/05/21, most of the samples were removed from the server by the malware operators, but the sample targeting Portugal was kept available for the next days.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

APRIL 11, 2019

The CNIL reminds that the rules resulting from the Regulation do not exclude the application of the general obligations under the GDPR, notably regarding compliance with the general principles for processing personal data, data subject rights and international transfers. What are the requirements set forth by the Regulation?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 12, 2024

Cloud log management is the comprehensive processing of log data, including generation, aggregation, storage, analysis, archive, and disposal. The top log management services offer troubleshooting and operational efficiency through seamless integration, secure log handling, advanced security analytics, and more.

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Data Protection Report

JULY 8, 2022

Blackbaud provides data collection and maintenance software solutions for administration, fundraising, marketing, and analytics services to various charitable organizations, including healthcare, religious, and educational institutions as well as various foundations. Background. Blackbaud failed to provide timely or accurate notice.

Data breaches 111

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 15, 2022

Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) is a crucial enterprise technology that ties the stack of cybersecurity systems together to assess threats and manage risks. ThreatInsight: This security monitoring assessment tool collects logs and gives you insight into your organization’s threats. Learn more about Graylog.

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Analytics Cloud Compliance Cybersecurity 113

eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 30, 2018

ESI sources: now that we routinely deal with email, text messages and mobile discovery, what is happening with data sources like Bluetooth connections, wearables, medical devices or smart home video? Will we see lawyers subpoena the connected car for its sensor data? Tired of looking at Enron data? Where’s our Flying Car?

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e-Discovery Artificial Intelligence GDPR Education 34

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Any organisation which collects, holds (i.e. In this case, there are multiples entities which are collecting, holding and otherwise controlling the use of the genetic information provided by the patient, however Australian privacy laws do not automatically apply to each entity which processes the personal information of Australians.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages. Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., Data breached: >35 million people’s data.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Data such as company registration data or company contact email ID that is publicly available, is not considered personal data and does not fall under the scope of GDPR. What data is protected under GDPR? Any personal data must be protected for GDPR compliance. A customer-centric approach to data privacy .

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 31, 2024

Now includes ability to export any of the charts within Visualizer to an image format and its corresponding data to a CSV format. PST Archival handling improved for quicker handling with less exceptions Index Engine Partitions updated to process simultaneously for faster processing and eliminating need for extra Java heap size Axcelerate 21.2

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2023

A data leak containing email addresses for 235 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacker forum. Many experts have immediately analyzed it and confirmed the authenticity of many of the entries in the huge leaked archive. At the end of July, a threat actor leaked data of 5.4 In November, data from 5.4M

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Data breaches Archiving Data collection Privacy 98

Troy Hunt

OCTOBER 19, 2017

This week, I started looking into a large database backup file which turned out to contain the personal data of a significant portion of the South African population. Who Am I and Why Do I Have This Data? Tuesday my time, I had the afternoon free so I sat in my hotel room and started looking closer at the data.

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