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Paragon: Yet Another Cyberweapons Arms Manufacturer

Schneier on Security

Forbes has the story : Paragon’s product will also likely get spyware critics and surveillance experts alike rubbernecking: It claims to give police the power to remotely break into encrypted instant messaging communications, whether that’s WhatsApp, Signal, Facebook Messenger or Gmail, the industry sources said.

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Spotlight: ShardSecure on Protecting Data At Rest Without Encryption

The Security Ledger

The post Spotlight: ShardSecure on Protecting Data At Rest Without Encryption appeared first on The Security Ledger with Paul F. Encryption tools for securing that data are widely available, but they come with costs both in management overhead and in speed of access. Click the icon below to listen. Spotlight: COVID Broke Security.

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MY TAKE: New tech standards, like ‘Matter’ and ‘BIMI,’ point the way to secure interoperability

The Last Watchdog

However, there’s still a long way to go to achieve deep interoperability of interconnected services in a way that preserves privacy and is very secure. This is precisely what the consortium of software companies and device manufacturers, led Google, Amazon and Apple, set out to achieve when Matter was conceived four years ago.

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Bring-Your-Own-Device Programs: A Balance Between Privacy and Cybersecurity

Data Protection Report

1] While the BYOD approach may offer certain advantages, such as greater flexibility and cost savings, employers should be mindful of the cybersecurity and privacy risks when leaving employees to their own devices. In this article, we explore some of these risks along with best practices employers can implement to mitigate these concerns.

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NEW TECH: DataLocker extends products, services to encrypt data on portable storage devices

The Last Watchdog

Related: Marriott reports huge data breach Ever thought about encrypting the data held on a portable storage device? Launched as a one-man operation in 2007, DataLocker has grown into a leading manufacturer of encrypted external drives, thumb drives, flash drives and self-encrypting, recordable CDs and DVDs.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

IT Governance

Incident details: The company found that data on its network had been encrypted without its knowledge. Breached organisation: D-Link Corporation, Taiwanese networking equipment manufacturer. Incident details: Ransomware attack that encrypted files and took systems, including critical ones, offline. The attackers demanded $1.9

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EUROPE: New privacy rules for connected vehicles in Europe?

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Main takeaways from the EDBP guidelines are: Connected vehicles raise various privacy and data protection concerns, such as the lack of control and information asymmetry, the risk of excessive data collection; the risk of unlawful further processing of personal data; Most data associated with connected vehicles are considered as personal data (e.g.

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