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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Eye4Fraud database allegedly leaked – 14.9 Data breached: 14,900,000 lines. million unique records, with 9.4

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SHARED INTEL Q&A: My thoughts and opinions about cyber threats — as discussed with OneRep

The Last Watchdog

OneRep provides a consumer service that scrubs your personal information from Google and dozens of privacy-breaching websites. Adding to this will be very smart uses of generative AI – centered around wisely directing LLM capacities onto specific data lakes containing threat intelligence information.

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Cloud models for reducing security risks

CGI

Cloud models for reducing security risks. Cloud computing has given rise to new and varied security risks, challenging organizations in every sector to understand the risks and develop a holistic IT security policy that takes into account the cloud dimension. Tue, 04/19/2016 - 01:17.

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CNIL Releases Guidance on Teleworking

Hunton Privacy

On April 1, 2020, the French Data Protection Authority (the “CNIL”) released guidance for employers on how to implement teleworking (the “Guidance”) as well as best practices for their employees in this context (the “Best Practices”). Transmitting personal data in a secure way. Guidance for Employers. Best Practices for Employees.

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What will be your decisive moment to secure your cloud applications in a Zero Trust world?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Massive amounts of data are constantly produced globally, shared and stored by a rapidly growing number of devices in an expanding cloud environment. Data is useless unless it can be accessed, so it must reside in a place that’s penetrable, but only by those who are authorized. Trusted access is the key to the digital kingdom.

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Selecting the Right Cloud SSO Solution for Your Organization

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

To mitigate the risk of these attacks, risk officers and IT managers are searching for Single Sign On or SSO solutions. They need to maintain an easy user management access for cloud-based applications and services, without compromising on security. IT and risk professionals are looking for new ways to secure access.

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Understanding Have I Been Pwned's Use of SHA-1 and k-Anonymity

Troy Hunt

The fact that SHA-1 is fast to calculate and has proven hash collision attacks against its integrity doesn't diminish the purpose it serves in protecting badly parsed data. The 1 hash that won't yield any search results (until Google indexes this blog post.) is the middle one. is the middle one. And for what?

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