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A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

Krebs on Security

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The 911 service as it exists today.

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Meet Bluetana, the Scourge of Pump Skimmers

Krebs on Security

Data collected in the course of the investigation also reveals some fascinating details that may help explain why these pump skimmers are so lucrative and ubiquitous. ” BLACK MARKET VALUE. The black market value, impact to consumers and banks, and liability associated with different types of card fraud.

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Strengthening cybersecurity in life sciences with IBM and AWS

IBM Big Data Hub

Cloud computing offers the potential to redefine and personalize customer relationships, transform and optimize operations, improve governance and transparency, and expand business agility and capability. In 2017, 94% of hospitals used electronic clinical data from their EHR.

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Data Breach Bills Clear Senate Judiciary Committee

Hunton Privacy

The Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011 (the “Leahy Bill”), sponsored by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT), would require companies to implement a comprehensive data privacy and security program to protect sensitive personally identifiable information, and notify affected individuals in the event of a security breach.

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China’s PIPL has finally arrived, and brings helpful clarification (rather than substantial change) to China’s data privacy framework

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Definition of Personal information and Sensitive Personal information “Personal information” means any kind of information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, either electronically or otherwise recorded, but excluding information that has been de-identified or anonymised. Excessive data collection must be avoided.

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Supply Chain Security 101: An Expert’s View

Krebs on Security

BK: But certainly there are some areas of computer hardware and network design where you absolutely must have far greater integrity assurance? Once I know I can trace back the construction of a computer board to a certain place, you’ve built a different kind of security challenge for the attacker.

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GDPR and The Data Governance Imperative

AIIM

The confluence of big data, cloud computing, social media, mobile devices collect and aggregate diverse data sets, which taken together, such as internet search habits and GPS tracking information may expose personally identifiable information. Predictive analytics is fundamentally changing the definition of data.

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