Hunton Privacy

JUNE 22, 2020

On July 1, 2020, amendments to Vermont’s data breach notification law, signed into law earlier this year, will take effect along with Vermont’s new student privacy law. Security Breach Notice Act. Student Data Privacy. The number of affected consumers exceeding 5,000 is no longer a basis for providing substitute notice.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Rainbow table attacks are an effective tactic for threat actors targeting password database vulnerabilities presenting inadequate privacy and security functionality. The development of cryptology has been critical to safeguarding data for government agencies, military units, companies, and today’s digital users.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The Verizon 2019 Data Breach Investigations Report advises organizations to deploy multifactor authentication throughout all systems and discourage password reuse. The combination of prominent media-reported mega breaches and less famous identity thefts have promoted the industry to adopt passwordless authentication methods.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 9, 2023

Cavanagh As a latecomer to the hyperscale data center market , Oracle focused on its heritage of helping large enterprise customers securely and efficiently run their mission critical systems and applications, Cavanagh told me. “We They’re all becoming increasingly dependent on hyperconnectivity. I’ll keep watch and keep reporting.

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The Security Ledger

JULY 10, 2018

But securing these interfaces has, thus far, been an afterthought. If we are destined to interact with the smart systems around us using our voice, how exactly will we manage to authenticate to those devices? But securing these interfaces has, thus far, been an afterthought. Authenticate me! Read the whole entry. »

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Just a couple of months after that, World Rugby itself announced that one of its training websites had suffered a security breach that exposed subscribers’ account information. That’s why it announced it would pursue two measures designed to strengthen its national digital security posture ahead of these sporting events.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 5, 2024

From securing everyday personal messages and the authentication of digital signatures to protecting payment information for online shopping and even guarding top-secret government data and communications—cryptography makes digital privacy possible. This enabled a new form of encryption called asymmetric key algorithms.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A data inventory allows you to focus the greatest security (and monitoring) where it needs to be. Many security programs focus on employee education (creating a strong password, being aware of phishing, etc.). In addition, make it easy to report security concerns (phishing, data leaks, social engineering , password compromise, etc.).

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2020

and imposes certain data security requirements on covered businesses. The Bill defines personal information as an individual’s name in combination with any of the following data elements: Social Security number, individual taxpayer identification number, passport number, driver’s license number, D.C. Harm Threshold.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Set in the final weeks of World War 1, the story swings heavily on the contrast between false security and the realities of war. False sense of security. On the frontlines of computing, there is a false and persistent sense of security among CIOs, company boards and most security professionals that reminded me of the end of this novel.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

On May 10, one of the hospitals detected malicious activity on its Microsoft Windows Domain Controller, a critical “keys to the kingdom” component of any Windows enterprise network that manages user authentication and network access. The HSE Security Operations team requested that the Server team restart servers.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Rainbow table attacks are an effective tactic for threat actors targeting password database vulnerabilities presenting inadequate privacy and security functionality. The development of cryptology has been critical to safeguarding data for government agencies, military units, companies, and today’s digital users.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 27, 2024 Ransomware Gangs Target Unpatched ScreenConnect Servers Type of vulnerability: Authentication bypass and path traversal. Sophos Endpoint, Server, and Home: Security certificate validation warnings for systems rebooted on the 29th blocked browsing sessions. The fix: Apply Windows patches ASAP.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Should law enforcement and military officials have access to a digital backdoor enabling them to bypass any and all types of encryption that exist today? Advocates claim such access is needed to strengthen national security and hinder terrorism. This makes backdoors the worst possible things for security.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 15, 2019

AB 1130 also specifies that “[i]n breaches involving biometric data,” the reporting entity must provide “instructions on how to notify other entities that used the same type of biometric data as an authenticator to no longer rely on [that] data for authentication purposes.”. The amendments take effect January 1, 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Versa Unified SASE provides carrier-grade performance and a host of deployment options expected by experienced network engineers and security professionals. Founded in 2012, Versa Networks seeks to deploy a single software operating system, called VOS, to converge and integrate cloud and on-premises security, networking, and analytics.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

IoT devices help remotely control our household appliances, power plants, smart buildings, factories, airports, shipyards, trucks, trains and military. The challenge of the moment is that many companies already have their hands full trying to improve their security posture as they migrate their legacy, on premises, IT systems to the cloud.

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Data Protection Report

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Effective October 1, 2021, an amendment [1] to the Connecticut General Statute concerning data privacy breaches, Section 36a-701b, will impact notification obligations in several significant ways. Provides certain exemptions from public disclosure for materials provided to the state in response to an investigation of a breach of security.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 25, 2019

That May 10th air strike by the Israel Defense Force marked the first use of military force in direct retaliation for cyber spying. This comes as no surprise to anyone in the military or intelligence communities. nuclear arsenal in 2003 • Breaches of computers at the Department of Commerce in 2006 • Hacking of military systems at U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 21, 2020

For it’s State of Cloud Security 2020 survey, Sophos commissioned the polling of some 3,500 IT managers across 26 countries in Europe, the Americas, Asia Pacific, the Middle East, and Africa. Sophos found that fully 70% of organizations experienced a public cloud security incident in the last year.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. Encryption is the act of translating data into secret code ( ciphertext ) and back again ( plaintext ) for secure access between multiple parties. What is Encryption?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

While some of the measures stipulated in the order are considered table stakes like multi-factor authentication, the fact that the order exists will help to raise the collective security posture of products and services. Keatron Evans, principal security researcher, Infosec Institute. Bryson Bort , CEO, SCYTHE.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Until recently, I was fairly active on Twitter , regularly tweeting to more than 350,000 followers about important security news and stories here. The records also reveal how Conti dealt with its own internal breaches and attacks from private security firms and foreign governments. million users. A report commissioned by Sen.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 28, 2018

Related podcast : Obsolescence is creeping into legacy security systems. Military operatives and intelligence units today routinely hack to knock down critical infrastructure, interfere with elections, and even to exact revenge on Hollywood studios. “As national security is incalculable. What comes next is difficult to conjure.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 9, 2019

Further, the expanded definition now includes “username or email address in combination with a password or security questions and answers that would permit access to an online account” (without an individual’s name). Method of Notification.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

Is there something more secure? Simon Moffatt from CyberHut joins The Hacker Mind to discuss how identity and access management (IAM) is fundamental to everything we do online today, and why even multi-factor access, while an improvement, needs to yield to more effortless and more secure passwordless technology that’s coming soon.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Recent guidance from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on disclosure and enforcement actions by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) make clear that cybersecurity is no longer a niche topic, but a concern significant enough to warrant the oversight of corporate boards of directors. Designing an Enterprise-Level Approach.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

A lot of SMBs do not have security operations centers or SOCs. They have IT contractors who can provision laptops and maintain a certain level of compliance and security. They can provide that additional security, remotely. They have those security capabilities. In a way and then you consume the outcomes.

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Adam Levin

MAY 13, 2019

Email addresses are still the main way we authenticate ourselves to do business online, and because of that email as a category represents an extremely weak link in our collective cybersecurity. The reason for email’s ongoing existence despite its obvious shortcomings and major security issues is counter-intuitive.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 11, 2018

A virtual private network, VPN for short, is an internet security system that allows you, the user, to send data over the internet in a safe, secure, and in the case of some VPN platforms, secretly over a private network. How VPNs work The role of a VPN is privacy: it allows you absolute privacy as you send data over a network.

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