IT Governance

DECEMBER 20, 2022

million (about £1.5 The message appeared to come from a genuine source, but after Kramer provided his credentials, he learned that he’d given an unauthorised person access to his wallet and digital assets. Elsewhere in March, Meta – the parent company of Facebook – was handed a €17 million (about £14.2 million at the time).

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

A UK government study found that half of adults said they had received a phishing message in the previous month. Cyber criminals also target internal data (32%) and personal data (24%). It found that in the 90 days leading up to last year’s sale, 1,633 fake sites targeting the event were detected. million (£3.42

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Interactive Information Management

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

In light of this week's LexisNexis Data Breach report, it's worthwhile to explore the true value and usefulness of this kind of data that might be stolen from you. However, a person's "Unique Identity" is not simply this data, but also the context around this data, and its derivatives (or "information packages").

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In our manifesto at the general election we committed to provide people with the ability to require major social media platforms to delete information held about them, especially when that information related to their childhood. I wonder if other noble Lords share my feeling that this is a bad precedent and, if so, what we might do about it.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 3, 2023

The very next day I published a blog post about how I made it so fast to search through 154M records and thus began a now 185-post epic where I began detailing the minutiae of how I built this thing, the decisions I made about how to run it and commentary on all sorts of different breaches. Congress How on earth did I end up here?!

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

With facial recognition algorithms averaging about a 0.08% chance of error recently, compared to the former output at 4.1%, the vision for this technology is fast being realized. Another concern is that of false negatives in identification, which can deny the right person access. Best Facial Recognition Software for 2022.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

India's Aadhaar implementation is the largest biometric system in the world, holding about 1.2 billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. They claim that they're hack-proof. Can you prove otherwise?

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

LockBit leaks data stolen from the South Korean National Tax Service Italy’s Data Protection Authority temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns CISA adds bugs exploited by commercial surveillance spyware to Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers are actively exploiting a flaw in the Elementor Pro WordPress plugin Cyber Police of Ukraine (..)

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 21, 2018

Plus, of course, there's the ginormous financial impact; TalkTalk claims their 2015 hack cost them £42M and I've heard first-hand from those inside other companies that have suffered data breaches about just how costly they've been ("many millions of dollars" is very common). The Industry Cleaned Up a Lot in 2017.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

This technology was deployed at certain events and in certain public locations where crime was likely to occur, and was able to capture up to 50 faces per second. The police would subsequently match the images captured with wanted persons in their own databases using biometric data analysis.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Prior to her appointment as the second Data Protection Registrar, France worked at the Home Office , and she was aware of some skepticism about the ability of the regulator to regulate independently. Finally, France noted that during her period in office, the language of data protection changed. View of the Government.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2020

Over the past few weeks, Zoom's use has exploded since it became the video conferencing platform of choice in today's COVID-19 world. (My My goal here is to summarize all of the problems and talk about solutions and workarounds. Privacy first: Zoom spies on its users for personal profit. Depends what you mean by "sell."

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

New attack by Anonymous Italy: personal data from ministries and police have been released online. As announced, the three groups that coordinate the operation “Black Week” have released also today new data from their raids on online sites and databases. About the Author: Arturo Di Corinto. By definition.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 4, 2024

February 26, 2024 FCKeditor Used for SEO Poisoning on Government, University Sites Type of vulnerability: Malicious URL redirect. Read more about how websites and application vulnerability scanners can proactively help development teams catch issues. The fix: Examine websites and remove all FCKeditor plug-in instances.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JULY 22, 2018

But before you roll your eyes in anticipation of yet another Facebook rant, no, this post is not about Facebook, despite that company’s continued inability to govern itself. No, this post is about the business of health insurance. The Tragedy of the Commons. Well, consider how the insurance industry prices its policies.

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