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Corporate Finance firms leak 500K+ legal and financial documents online

Security Affairs

Security experts from vpnMentor have discovered two corporate finance companies that leak half a million legal and financial documents online. vpnMentor experts uncovered a database exposed online on Amazon Web Services (AWS) that is leaking a huge amount of sensitive legal and financial documents. ” concludes vpnMentor.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

With the proliferation of social media platforms and other new technologies has come a renewed legal focus on privacy. 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? In this essay, Robert D.

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GUEST ESSAY: HIPAA’s new ‘Safe Harbor’ rules promote security at healthcare firms under seige

The Last Watchdog

Meanwhile, the healthcare sector accounted for 79 percent of all reported data breaches during the first 10 months of 2020, a study by Fortified Health Security tells us. At last, some good news has surfaced that encourages healthcare providers to implement the best security practices and meet HIPAA requirements.

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A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?

Krebs on Security

John Clifton Davies , a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. Official incorporation documents from the U.K.’s

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Nascent EU/ US Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework: some points to note

Data Protection Report

On 25 March the EU Commission ( Commission ) and United States ( US ) announced that they had agreed in principle on a new “Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework” ( TADPF ) to foster trans-Atlantic data flows and address the concerns raised by Schrems II. Timings for publication of the detailed documents are unclear.

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NEW TECH: How the emailing of verified company logos actually stands to fortify cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

This happened rather quietly as Google announced the official launch of VMCs in a blog post on July 12. However, there is a fascinating back story about how Google’s introduction of VMCs – to meet advertising and marketing imperatives — could ultimately foster a profound advance in email security. DMARC’s revival.

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For 2nd Time in 3 Years, Mobile Spyware Maker mSpy Leaks Millions of Sensitive Records

Krebs on Security

Less than a week ago, security researcher Nitish Shah directed KrebsOnSecurity to an open database on the Web that allowed anyone to query up-to-the-minute mSpy records for both customer transactions at mSpy’s site and for mobile phone data collected by mSpy’s software. The database required no authentication.

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