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New Zealand property management company leaks 30,000 users’ passports, driver’s licenses and other personal data

Security Affairs

CyberNews reported the discovery of an unsecured Amazon S3 bucket containing users’ passports, driver’s licenses and other personal data. Example of passport: Example of Australian passport: Example of driver’s license: Who had access to the bucket? The original post available here: [link]. Disclosure.

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Brazil Releases Draft Personal Data Protection Bill

Hunton Privacy

On January 28, 2015, the Brazilian government issued the Preliminary Draft Bill for the Protection of Personal Data ( Anteprojeto de Lei para a Proteção de Dados Pessoais ) on a website specifically created for public debate on the draft bill. Prohibition on processing sensitive personal data, except in limited circumstances.

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Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech…

John Battelle's Searchblog

The post Predictions 2015: Uber, Google, Apple, Beacons, Health, Nest, China, Adtech… appeared first on John Battelle's Search Blog. Last year, for example, I predicted that 2014 would be the year that the Internet would “adopt the planet as its cause.” So what might happen in 2015?

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350 million decrypted email addresses left exposed on an unsecured server

Security Affairs

As cyberattacks become ever more frequent and sophisticated across the board, both organizations and individuals are still struggling to catch up with cybercriminals when it comes to data security. On June 10, the exposed S3 bucket was closed by Amazon and is no longer accessible. What happened to the data?

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Operation Night Fury: Group-IB helps take down a cybergang behind the infection of hundreds of websites all over the world

Security Affairs

According to Group-IB’s data, the suspects have managed to infect hundreds of websites in various locations, including in Indonesia, Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, Brazil, and some other countries. Payment and personal data of thousands of online shoppers from Asia, Europe, and the Americas have been stolen.

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Me on the Equifax Breach

Schneier on Security

I have authored 13 books on these subjects, including Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World (Norton, 2015). Regarding Equifax, few consumers have any idea what the company knows about them, who they sell personal data to or why. Take one example: credit freezes.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

The 2015 amendments to Rule 26(b)(1), however, were meant to resolve any doubt, returning the proportionality factors to their original place as part of the very definition of what is discoverable. The revised Rule “recogni[zed] that the right of pretrial disclosure is subject to some limitation beyond relevance.”10

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