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Selling and utilising personal data in an insolvency situation

Data Protection Report

But this is a tricky area to navigate, particularly following the General Data Protection Regulation ( GDPR ), since both the ICO and the FCA have started to pay more attention to this area. Share sales. Asset sales. This valuable commodity could help attract potential purchasers. Can this be done? It depends.

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MY TAKE: Here’s why we need ‘SecOps’ to help secure ‘Cloud Native’ companiess

The Last Watchdog

In that caper, a core API was left open allowing them to exploit it and begin using Tesla’s servers to mine cryptocurrency. Going for security certifications like SOC 2 Type II is very important to them, in removing friction from the sales process when talking to their customers. Proper configurations.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 264

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs free for you in your email box. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Weekly podcast: 2018 end-of-year roundup

IT Governance

Rather than dropping ransomware on victims’ machines and hoping they would pay to regain access to their files, cyber criminals were increasingly cutting out the middle man and infecting victims’ machines with software that used their spare processing power to mine for cryptocurrency. And, of course, on 25 May the GDPR came into effect.

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Open the Gates for Next-Gen Loyalty

Reltio

No wonder our ad spend does not give the expected sales lift, and we falter on brand loyalty.” Do you have new depths of insight and understanding of your customers by automatically mining the value of relationships between customers and the people, places, and things they interact with every day? Do you have yours?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

LLC, Prime-Line Products and Shop-Vac USA, LLC Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes Thousands of administrative documents, budgets, sales invoices, salary information, company secrets; dozens of NVDAs; over 100 distributor agreements; and some passports Bell Flavors & Fragrances Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1,768 Simoniz USA, Inc.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

million Gumtree user records allegedly for sale A user database from the classified advertising platform Gumtree has allegedly been offered for sale on a hacking forum. At the time of writing, it’s unclear whether this is related to a 2023 data breach suffered by the company, as discussed by Have I Been Pwned’s Troy Hunt last March.