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GUEST ESSAY: Going beyond watermarks to protect sensitive documents from illegal access

The Last Watchdog

They also enrich documents with metadata and place them in crypto-containers, access to which is only granted by permission. However, all of these solutions are powerless when it comes to photographing a document with a smartphone and compromising printed copies of documents. There are more exotic ways of protecting documents.

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Fulton County, Security Experts Call LockBit’s Bluff

Krebs on Security

they could expect to see their internal documents published online this morning unless the county paid a ransom demand. Security experts say LockBit was likely bluffing and probably lost most of the data when the gang’s servers were seized this month by U.S. The ransomware group LockBit told officials with Fulton County, Ga.

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Updating your data protection documentation following Brexit

IT Governance

The UK version was born out of the EU GDPR, so you might think that there are only cosmetic differences and that minor actions are required to adjust your documentation and compliance practices. In this blog, we look at some of the things you must consider. Do you have appropriate security mechanisms for data transfers?

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Leaked documents from Russian firm NTC Vulkan show Sandworm cyberwarfare arsenal

Security Affairs

Documents leaked from Russian IT contractor NTC Vulkan show it was likely involved in the development of offensive tools. The documents demonstrate that it also developed hacking tools for the Russia-linked APT group Sandworm. The documents include details for three projects named Scan, Amesit, and Krystal-2B.

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OpenAI Is Not Training on Your Dropbox Documents—Today

Schneier on Security

There’s a rumor flying around the Internet that OpenAI is training foundation models on your Dropbox documents. Dropbox isn’t sharing all of your documents with OpenAI. ” Willison expands this in a blog post , which I strongly recommend reading in its entirety. Here’s CNBC. Here’s Boing Boing.

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April’s Patch Tuesday Brings Record Number of Fixes

Krebs on Security

Microsoft today released updates to address 147 security holes in Windows, Office , Azure ,NET Framework , Visual Studio , SQL Server , DNS Server , Windows Defender , Bitlocker , and Windows Secure Boot. Yes, you read that right. “As far as I can tell, it’s the largest Patch Tuesday release from Microsoft of all time.”

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The False Economy of Deprioritising Security

IT Governance

In the UK, cyber security has been dropping down the board’s list of priorities. The UK government’s Cyber Security Breaches Survey 2023 confirms this trend. Fewer directors, trustees and other senior managers of both UK businesses and charities see cyber security as a high priority in 2023 compared to 2022. Specifically, a 13.4%

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