Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Armed with stolen login credentials, the men allegedly stole more than $10 million from 142 Binance victims, $5.24 Treasury Department announced economic sanctions against Potekhin and Karasavidi , effectively freezing all property and interests of these persons (subject to U.S. jurisdiction) and making it a crime to transact with them.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Russian authorities allege Vrublevsky operated several fraudulent SMS-based payment schemes, and facilitated money laundering for Hydra , the largest Russian darknet market. In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 A Google-translated snippet of the hacked ChronoPay Confluence installation.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

A statement of facts filed by the government indicates Petr Pacas was at one point director of operations at Company A (Adconion). The government alleges the men sent forged letters to an Internet hosting firm claiming they had been authorized by the registrants of the inactive IP addresses to use that space for their own purposes.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

On September 10, 2013, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published new guidance on direct marketing (the “Guidance”). Consent is a key focus of the Guidance because organizations will often need to obtain consent in order to send direct marketing communications.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

On September 10, 2013, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”) published guidance for companies receiving unwanted marketing (the “Guidance”). This Guidance was published as part of a broader focus on unwanted marketing in the UK.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

iSharing is used by more than 35 million users. The company has fixed the issue, blaming it on a vulnerability in the app’s groups feature. Data breached: >35 million people’s data. 117 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2019

This past year, I predicted the fall of both Zuck and Trump, not to mention the triumph of cannabis and rationale markets. Nearly 10 million people were displaced by climate change in 2019. And way will a founding CEO get taken down a notch in that scenario, ridiculous governance structures be dammed. Damn, was I wrong.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 2, 2019

I’ve written about this at length elsewhere, so I will just summarize: Facebook’s only salvation is through a new system of governance. Because of this, unhappily, we’ll end up governed by both GDPR and California’s homespun privacy law , neither of which actually force the kind of change we really need.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 1, 2021

The company’s own employees are increasingly uncomfortable with their leadership, and its consumers and marketing partners are increasingly looking for alternatives to a platform they see as toxic and unwilling to change. I’m generally inclined to be optimistic, but rose-colored glasses stretch time. AI has a mid-life crisis.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Score: 10/10. A tanking stock market that has lost all faith in the President’s leadership. Score: 10/10. I love writing this post, and thankfully you all love reading it as well. What’s that about, anyway? Is it the spectacle of watching a guy admit he got things wrong? Cheering when I get it right?

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. As it turns out, my musings were often on target. Zero if I whiffed entirely, ten if I hit it out of the park, and some kind of partial credit in between. This one is harder to judge.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2021

A significant percentage of the US population has become unmoored from truth – and an equally significant group of us have simply thrown our hands up about it. Trust is at an all time low. My next prediction: Facebook’s chickens come home to roost…2021 will be a dismal year for Facebook. Oh my, was it ever. May: Plans for Zuck & Co.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Most of Reich’s argument turns on this simple premise: The debate between “free markets” and “government intrusion” is a false choice. From banking to broadband, pharma to agriculture, Reich details subtle market mechanisms that concentrate power and capital into the hands of the “new oligarchs.”

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. As it turns out, my musings were often on target. Zero if I whiffed entirely, ten if I hit it out of the park, and some kind of partial credit in between. This one is harder to judge.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Score: 10 of 10. #2: Score: 5 of 10. #3. Score: 4 of 10. #4. As I wrote nearly 12 months ago , 2017 felt particularly unpredictable. As it turns out, my musings were often on target. Zero if I whiffed entirely, ten if I hit it out of the park, and some kind of partial credit in between. This one is harder to judge.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 13, 2024

The government alleges Khoroshev created, sold and used the LockBit ransomware strain to personally extort more than $100 million from hundreds of victim organizations, and that LockBit as a group extorted roughly half a billion dollars over four years. That’s what the government believes. Dmitry Yuryevich Khoroshev.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

APRIL 26, 2015

Uber is about a very real and entirely new approach to our economy, a stand in for the wealth divide festering in the US and beyond, an existential rorschach testing your values around the role of government, the social contract, and the kind of society we want to become. The post Uber, The Rashomon. Or do we see both? billion a year.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Hello and welcome to the final IT Governance podcast of 2018. Even government and public bodies’ websites – including, ironically, the ICO – were found to be running cryptomining software after a third-party plug-in was compromised, but it transpired. The Russian foreign ministry denied rumours of Muscovite involvement.

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Collibra

AUGUST 4, 2020

From legal to IT and marketing to finance, every single business unit holds some stake in data security and data privacy. Look at these price tags for some of the most expensive data breaches over the last 10 years: Equifax – $700 million settlement, ~143 million people affected, 2017. Consumers care about how data is used and misused.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Additionally, I am a Fellow and Lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government --where I teach Internet security policy -- and a Fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. My popular newsletter Crypto - Gram and my blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. It's a data broker.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The internet is fraught with peril these days, but nothing strikes more fear into users and IT security pros than the threat of ransomware. A ransomware attack is about as bad as a cyber attack can get. Here, then, is a comprehensive look at ransomware, what it is, how to prevent it, and what to do if you become one of its unfortunate victims.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The French cookie rules are laid down in (1) Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, which implements into French law the provisions of the EU ePrivacy Directive governing the use of cookies; and (2) soft law instruments aimed at guiding operators in implementing Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act in practice.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. New technologies have started innumerable economic revolutions, and the pace of change continues to accelerate.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 6, 2017

Writing these predictions is something I’ve always looked forward to – I don’t prepare in any demonstrable way, but I do gather crumbs over time, filing them away for the day when I sit down and free associate for however long it takes me to complete this post. Let’s see what happens… 1. This can’t stand.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 30, 2018

So here it is - 10 Personal Financial Lessons for Technology Professionals. I don't just mean at the crazy rich end of the scale (4 of the world's top 10 richest people did it in tech - Bezos, Gates, Zuckerberg and Ellison), but at all levels of our profession. When you boil it down, what do those three things have in common?

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 24, 2014

The Commission’s efforts are focused on maintaining the integrity of market systems, protecting customer data and the disclosure of material information. In a speech on June 10, 2014, Commissioner Luis Aguilar made remarks on cybersecurity issues during a conference hosted by the New York Stock Exchange. Commissioner Aguilar Speech.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The financial services industry has been in the process of modernizing its data governance for more than a decade. But as we inch closer to global economic downturn, the need for top-notch governance has become increasingly urgent. Download the Gartner® Market Guide for Active Metadata Management 1. Stakeholders?

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

Increasingly, thought leaders, professional organizations, and government agencies are beginning to provide answers. Creating an enterprise-wide governance structure. More and more, directors are viewing cyber-risk under the broader umbrella of corporate strategy and searching for ways to help mitigate that risk.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

On Monday, May 10, Colonial announced that it had set a “goal of substantially restoring operational service by the end of the week,” which means the Eastern U.S. Chris Krebs (@C_C_Krebs) May 10, 2021. Dmitri Alperovitch (@DAlperovitch) May 10, 2021. will likely face days of uncertainty over its energy supply.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here are the world's 10 largest sites: no EV! That's it - I'm calling it - extended validation certificates are dead. Sure, you can still buy them (and there are companies out there that would just love to sell them to you!), pic.twitter.com/IYf2Km4LkD — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) July 14, 2017. However, if you look at the URL.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2022

We’ll start with the top 10 overall and then look at other noteworthy startups in a number of markets. Top 10 Cybersecurity Startups. Open Raven analyzes data at rest, classifies inventory, and automates data governance as these become critical capabilities for the hybrid infrastructure’s security posture.

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