Data Protector

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Two years ago I blogged about an unsettling experience I had with Apollo, a firm that had confused me as to what they were really all about. Since then, I’ve had a number of emails from people who have had similar experiences. Today, I’m reprinting (most of) the most recent one – which comments about an organisation called Apollo-Transitions. Surely, this is not the same company as the Apollo company I had encountered?

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Collaboration 2.0

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

HCL's 'Great Digital Leap Forward' will keep astute client partners ahead of US offshoring BPO political protectionism

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This post has been updated. . On November 10, 2016, the Court of Appeal for Moscow’s Taginsky District upheld an August 2016 decision by the district’s lower court that LinkedIn had violated Russian data protection laws. Access to the professional networking site is now set to be blocked across Russia. The court’s decision, which followed a complaint from the Russian data protection regulator, Roskomnadzor, found that LinkedIn violated Russian data protection law on two counts: not storing data

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RFID Global Solution, Inc.

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Tech | Tech News Nov 14, 2016 – There’s nothing like lost luggage to put a damper on the holiday travel season, but a simple piece of technology being added to some luggage tags could help limit the problem. Just in time for the travel rush, Delta is adding Radio Frequency Identification chips, also known as RFID, to paper baggage tags. For an up-close look, tune in tonight at 6:30 p.m. to NBC Nightly News.

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Overview A confluence of two risky design choices, combined with various implementation issues, makes drive-by downloads possible with Google Chrome on Fedora. In total, with the risky design choices first, the issues are: Chrome will auto download files to a user’s desktop with no confirmation. Fedora’s “tracker” software will auto crawl downloaded files to index them, including media files.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

On November 16, 2016, the UK Investigatory Powers Bill (the “Bill”) was approved by the UK House of Lords. Following ratification of the Bill by Royal Assent, which is expected before the end of 2016, the Bill will officially become law in the UK. The draft of the Bill has sparked controversy, as it will hand significant and wide-ranging powers to state surveillance agencies, and has been strongly criticized by some privacy and human rights advocacy groups. .

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

On November 14, 2016, Lincoln Financial Securities Corp. (“LFS”), a subsidiary of Lincoln Financial Group, entered into a settlement (the “Settlement”) with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), requiring LFS to pay a $650,000 fine and implement stronger cybersecurity protocols following a 2012 hack into its cloud-based server. In 2012, hackers with foreign IP addresses accessed LFS’s cloud server and stole confidential records of approximately 5,400 customers.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

On November 7, 2016, Adobe Systems Inc. (“Adobe”) entered into an assurance of voluntary compliance (“AVC”) with 15 state attorneys general to settle allegations that the company lacked proper measures to protect its systems from a 2013 cyber attack that resulted in the theft of the personal information of millions of customers. Under the terms of the AVC, Adobe must pay $1 million to the attorneys general and implement new data security policies and practices.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

On November 14, 2016, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) published guidance on cybersecurity for internet-connected devices, Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for A Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems (the “Guidance”). Citing “the continuing frequency, intensity, and adverse consequences of cyber-attacks,” the Guidance “addresses the engineering-driven perspective and actions necessary to develop more defensible and sur

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Scary Beasts Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Overview A vulnerability and a separate logic error exist in the gstreamer 0.10.x player for NSF music files. Combined, they allow for very reliable exploitation and the bypass of 64-bit ASLR, DEP, etc. The reliability is provided by the presence of a turing complete “scripting” inside a music player. NSF files are music files from the Nintendo Entertainment System.

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