Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

Twitter confirmed that a security incident publicly exposed Circle tweets FBI seized other domains used by the shadow eBook library Z-Library WordPress Advanced Custom Fields plugin XSS exposes +2M sites to attacks Fortinet fixed two severe issues in FortiADC and FortiOS Pro-Russia group NoName took down multiple France sites, including the French (..)

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Exercise Caution with Emails The first two items on this list could be lumped together with a single warning: Don’t click. Watch File Extensions: Exercise caution with file extensions; avoid files with suspicious extensions like.exe or.bat, especially from unfamiliar sources.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Here’s a primer about how cyber hygiene best practices – and supporting security tools and services – could gain significant steam in the months ahead, thanks to COVID-19. There is, in fact, deep consensus about how to protect sensitive data and ensure the overall security of corporate networks. Cyber hygiene isn’t difficult.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

L agarde warns that operational outages that encrypted or destroyed balance accounts at a major bank could trigger a liquidity crisis. “As “It was the first exercise of its kind to be by finance ministries, central banks, regulators and financial market authorities. ” reported the Independent.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

data controllers should seek to provide additional safeguards to mitigate risks, in particular (1) encryption for which “only the data exporter has the key” and which “cannot be broken by U.S. A summary of the key points of the Baden-Württemberg guidance is set out below. Assessment of Data Transfers. For data transfers to the U.S.,

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This week, we discuss a Bank of England cyber resilience exercise, the latest cyber security news from the US Office of Personnel Management, the highlights of this month’s Patch Tuesday, and a surprising admission by a Japanese cyber security minister. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 16 November.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 28, 2023

To make sure the exercise is effective and doesn’t inadvertently cause harm, all parties to a pentest need to understand the type of testing to be done and the methods used. Penetration testers will verify wireless encryption protocols , check for beacons, confirm traffic, search for access points and hotspots, and MAC address spoofing.

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AIIM

APRIL 16, 2020

But, as you start your social distancing/remote working, there are certain strict and important practices that every organization will have to exercise. Encrypting data transfers during the transit. With the help of an IT support team, guide your employees on how to reset the password. Let’s get started!

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Armstrong Archives

AUGUST 25, 2023

To prevent something like this from happening, it always helps to check the access logs and exercise control over who can view sensitive information like this. Strong encryption methods for data should be used, and multi-factor authentication will add even another layer of security.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Our analysis will then need to consider what it will take to prepare to meet that request and how to communicate it clearly, without technical jargon, to our executives, to the board, and possibly to a judge and jury. In the event of a breach, the last thing the tech team will want to do is figure out how to make a report.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

To prevent this, you should avoid WEP encryption (which can be cracked in minutes) and use only WPA2, which uses AES-based encryption and provides better security than WPA. Cyber criminals often plant ransomware and other malware on organisations’ systems by exploiting security weaknesses in wireless networks. Keep software updated.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The Recommendations provide a six step roadmap to help data exporters understand how to logically assess data transfers to a third country and how to determine whether rights and protections in place are ‘essentially equivalent’ to those in the EU. in plain text/ pseudonymised or encrypted etc.);

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Here’s a scenario for how AD is factoring into ransomware attacks: The attacker gets a toehold inside the network by phishing an employee login , or via a targeted credential stuffing exercise, or through cross-site scripting. Even so, it will take a long while more before ransomware runs its full course. I’ll keep watching.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2018

How to minimize risks for data subjects when the processing of their personal data relies on a blockchain? Encrypted data. How to ensure the effective exercise of the data subjects’ rights? a) Privacy by design. The CNIL recommends to assess whether Blockchain is the appropriate technology for the intended use case.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 5, 2017

On January 3, 2017, the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) issued a memorandum (the “Breach Memorandum”) advising federal agencies on how to prepare for and respond to a breach of personally identifiable information (“PII”).

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 7, 2023

Red and blue team exercises can go beyond individual pentests to include comprehensive, ongoing testing objectives. For more on pentesting program design and assembling a team, read How to Implement a Penetration Testing Program in 10 Steps. With pentests, the most expert testers will provide remediation recommendations.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This problem is exacerbated when organisations don’t implement policies and procedures on how to handle information. Reminding employees to exercise caution and to back up information wherever possible will mitigate this risk. Data loss can also occur when devices suffer water (or other liquid) damage.

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ARMA International

JULY 17, 2023

So, caution should be exercised. If the answer is “Yes”, the firm needs to use discretion on how to proceed. Next, consideration must be given to how and when materials will be transferred. Electronic material needs to be encrypted and uploaded to a place where it can be securely downloaded by the onboarding firm.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 22, 2024

The organization offers data subjects easy ways to exercise their rights. These rights include: The right to access: Subjects must be able to request and receive copies of their data, as well as relevant information about how the company uses the data. Controllers and processors must honor these rights.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 16, 2020

It is important to note that equivalent rights are also enshrined in other data protection regulations, such as the GDPR or California’s Consumer Privacy Act, therefore businesses operating beyond the Indian borders may have already set up mechanisms to respond to requests from data principals looking to exercise such rights.

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KnowBe4

APRIL 25, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #17 | April 25th, 2023 [Head Start] Effective Methods How To Teach Social Engineering to an AI Remember The Sims? This is concerning, as 95% of organizations hit by ransomware said their data was, in fact, encrypted. Well Stanford created a small virtual world with 25 ChatGPT-powered "people." See Spot Work.

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Cyber Info Veritas

JULY 18, 2018

This means that the security initiatives that should be put in place must focus on how to decrease the time it takes to realize, contain and remediate suspicious activity on the information system. This exercise should be as practical as possible rather than using a completely theoretical approach.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 29, 2014

A risk-based approach allows data controllers to exercise greater discretion and flexibility in assessing how to address their compliance responsibilities in the context of their particular businesses. In the proposed revisions, the Council takes a risk-based approach to compliance.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

Once you know where the data is, how it got there, and its worth (and risk) to your organization, take the time to create a catalog so that your investment in these exercises can immediately generate value for those who need the data to do their job. The trouble is that most encryption methods aren’t universal.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

This page will enable consumers to exercise the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. Businesses will be prohibited from discriminating against any consumer for exercising their rights under the new law. Anti-Discrimination Provisions. Enforcement. AG Opinions / Guidance. AG Implementing Regulations.

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The amendments change and clarify a business’ obligation to permit consumers to submit requests to exercise their CCPA rights. Subsection (b) was amended to add that the Attorney General may adopt regulations on how to process and comply with verifiable consumer requests for specific pieces of personal information. What’s next.

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ForAllSecure

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

A kind of digital smash and grab of sensitive information such as the encryption keys created to protect sensitive transactions on a site like Amazon, or your bank with no way to trace any of it back to you. And this happens over and over until you leave the web site and break the encrypted channel and establish a new one on another website.

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Adam Levin

JULY 28, 2020

That said, email these days is a minefield we all need to learn how to traverse safely. . Privacy-centric options exist, including Protonmail which features end-to-end encryption. If you find your personal email account bombarded with unwanted marketing emails, there’s a good chance your account was compromised in a breach.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Conducts phishing simulation exercises and offers training to educate staff on email security best practices, lowering the chance of becoming a victim of phishing attempts. Encrypts critical email exchanges to protect the security of information during transmission. Email encryption safeguards critical correspondence.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 5, 2012

Data controllers should provide users with appropriate mechanisms to exercise their access rights with respect to both the original images and the templates generated in the context of facial recognition. . Data controllers can process digital images of non-registered users only if they have a legitimate interest.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 9, 2024

This framework guarantees that appropriate authentication measures, encryption techniques, data retention policies, and backup procedures are in place. Is data encrypted in transit and at rest? How to Evaluate Your SaaS Vendor Every vendor solution your organization uses should fit with your needs.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 16, 2020

This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. In this post, we will cover how to deal with each one of these challenges in the firmware fuzzing context. Non-x86 processor architecture. Non-glibc C standard library.

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ForAllSecure

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This requires an increased level of expertise and know-how to deal with efficiently: Dependency on specific hardware features present on the physical device. In this post, we will cover how to deal with each one of these challenges in the firmware fuzzing context. Non-x86 processor architecture. Non-glibc C standard library.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

This page will enable consumers to exercise the right to opt-out of the sale of their personal information. Businesses will be prohibited from discriminating against any consumer for exercising their rights under the new law. Anti-Discrimination Provisions. Enforcement. AG Opinions / Guidance. AG Implementing Regulations.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In this post, we’ll elaborate on how organizations can finalize the best approach to implement data encryption at an organizational level in an agile and efficient way. In a nutshell, no matter it’s data-at-rest or data-in-motion , it should be encrypted regardless of its state. Ground Reality: The Problem of Plenty!

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