Security Affairs

JUNE 11, 2020

A hack-for-hire group tracked as Dark Basin targeted thousands of journalists, advocacy groups, and politicians worldwide over 7 years. ” The report published by the experts provides detailed info on several clusters of targets hit by the group. . ” reads the report published by Citizen Lab. ” continues the report.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 1, 2019

On 26 July 2019, at the level of the Council, the Finnish government has issued a revised (Council) proposal for the e-Privacy Regulation with some amendments concerning electronic communication content, data & metadata, and further processing of metadata. b) Cookies and similar files/tags.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 3, 2019

For almost the past month, key computer systems serving the government of Baltimore, Md. National Security Agency (NSA) and leaked online in 2017. “At this point, Eternal Blue is probably going to be detected by internal [security systems] systems, or the target might already be patched for it.”

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

That harm extends all the way from those in data breaches feeling a sense of personal violation (that's certainly how I feel when I see my personal information exposed), all the way through to people literally killing themselves (there are many documented examples of this in the wake of the Ashley Madison breach). in August last year.

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