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What Is Data Minimisation? Definition & Examples

IT Governance

Data minimisation is a key part of information security and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) in particular. Its principles are at the heart of effective data protection practices, and are intended to prevent privacy breaches and minimise the damage when security incidents occur. What is data minimisation?

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Bank Groups Object to Proposed Breach Notification Regulation

Data Breach Today

ABA, Others Call Requirements Too Burdensome The American Bankers Association and three other banking groups have voiced objections to provisions in a proposed federal cyber incident notification regulation.

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What Is Packet Filtering? Definition, Advantages & How It Works

eSecurity Planet

computers, phones, routers, security cameras) need to communicate, they send data packets to each other. The filter process delivers allowed packets to the destination device or passes the packet on to the next security screening feature. Only a small number of commercial firewalls still focus on packet filtering.

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What is Cyber Threat Hunting? Definition, Techniques & Steps

eSecurity Planet

A combination of techniques and tools are used to thoroughly investigate and analyze incidents and indicators of compromise (IoC) with the goal of preventing or mitigating damage caused by network security attacks. Threat hunting teams are often composed of analysts from SOC teams or similarly qualified security pros.

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Identity Thieves Bypassed Experian Security to View Credit Reports

Krebs on Security

Identity thieves have been exploiting a glaring security weakness in the website of Experian , one of the big three consumer credit reporting bureaus. All that was needed was the person’s name, address, birthday and Social Security number. I am definitely in this camp. It is now free to people in all 50 U.S.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 435 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Year-Old Samba flaw allows escaping from the share path definition

Security Affairs

Security researchers discovered a year-old vulnerability in Samba software that could be exploited, under certain conditions, to bypass file-sharing permissions and access forbidden root shares paths. ” reads the security advisory. . ” reads the security advisory. ” continues the security advisory.

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