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How to Prevent SQL Injection Attacks

eSecurity Planet

First discovered in 1998, SQL injections (SQLi) are still a devastatingly effective attack technique and remain a top database security priority. Given most websites are built on data in a database server, a malicious SQL injection can be lethal. Also Read: With So Many Eyeballs, Is Open Source Security Better? Out-of-band.

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Padlocks, Phishing and Privacy; The Value Proposition of a VPN

Troy Hunt

I want a "secure by default" internet with all the things encrypted all the time such that people can move freely between networks without ever needing to care about who manages them or what they're doing with them. Now let's try the mobile app: What's the encryption story there? I mean what's the remaining gap?

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A new variant of Shamoon was uploaded to Virus Total while Saipem was under attack

Security Affairs

Shamoon was first observed in 2012 when it infected and wiped more than 30,000 systems at Saudi Aramco and other oil companies in the Middle East. DistTrack is able to wipe data from hard drives of the infected systems and render systems unusable. 7, 2017, at 11:51 pm, but only uploaded yesterday. ” reported Axios website.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Most of that focus has centered on data collection, storage, sharing, and, in particular, third-party transactions in which customer information is harnessed for advertising purposes. Could a party, for instance, decline to produce, review, or even collect certain types of data due to privacy concerns? But what about other contexts?

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Regulatory Update: NAIC Spring 2019 National Meeting

Data Matters

For example, reinsurers from Reciprocal Jurisdictions that are not parties to a covered agreement remain subject to commissioner discretion in a number of areas and subsequently may be subject to additional requirements not applicable to reinsurers from Reciprocal Jurisdictions that are parties to a covered agreement.

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10 Personal Finance Lessons for Technology Professionals

Troy Hunt

In fact, those guys are all pretty good examples of the ability to build amazing things from the ground up and I'm sure that many of you reading this have sat down and started building something with the same enthusiasm as, say, Zuckerberg did with Facebook in 2004. Just over 2 years ago, my wife (Kylie) had spinal surgery.

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