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Privacy in an open-data world: Why government agencies need to be proactive

Collibra

The ever-growing digitalization of our world has raised significant concerns about data privacy and security, particularly for agencies that manage and process sensitive and confidential information. On the flip side, data brokers pose a significant challenge in this landscape as well. There’s no going back.

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Did Amazon Just Jump the Shark on Consumer Privacy?

Adam Levin

The Internet of Things ( IoT ) found a still better foothold in consumer households with Amazon’s recent acquisition of eero, a wifi mesh router company. If the upgrade can provide a richer data set to the manufacturer, it’s a double win. It also represents a potential worst-case scenario for consumer privacy.

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What Is an Application Level Gateway? How ALGs Work

eSecurity Planet

Its filtering capability ensures that only certain network application data is transmitted, which has an impact on the security of protocols including FTP, Telnet, RTSP, and BitTorrent. To help you visualize the process better, we’ve also provided screenshots from Microsoft Azure’s application gateway documentation.

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SEO Expert Hired and Fired By Ashley Madison Turned on Company, Promising Revenge

Krebs on Security

The message contained links to confidential Ashley Madison documents, and included a manifesto that said a hacker group calling itself the Impact Team was prepared to leak data on all 37 million users unless Ashley Madison and a sister property voluntarily closed down within 30 days. It was around 9 p.m.

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