The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2018

However, these fraudsters don’t really care about snatching up your credentials or mine. By now, your personal information and mine has been hacked multiple times and is readily on sale in the Dark Web. He then altered manufacturing production codes and pilfered copies of sensitive business data. Machine-identity capers.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

And in May of this year, GoDaddy disclosed that 28,000 of its customers’ web hosting accounts were compromised following a security incident in Oct. 17 was not related to a security incident, but rather a technical issue that materialized during planned network maintenance. 2019 that wasn’t discovered until April 2020.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 12, 2020

Postal Service, the credit bureaus or the Social Security Administration, it’s a good idea to do so for several reasons. Adding multi-factor authentication (MFA) at these various providers (where available) and/or establishing a customer-specific personal identification number (PIN) also can help secure online access.

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The Guardian Data Protection

APRIL 17, 2018

The conceit of data mining firms is that they could win elections by moulding electorates based on new identities and value systems – a process accelerated by the echo chamber of social media Facebook sees itself as a commercial firm, not a social institution, and behaves accordingly. Continue reading.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Online security, technology and “The Cloud” Australian.", Name, username, bio and ID are all the sorts of data attributes you'd expect to find publicly available via an API or rendered into the HTML of the website. Microsoft Regional Director. Pluralsight author.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2019

On May 28, 2019, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) released draft Data Security Administrative Measures (the “Measures”) for public comment. The Measures cover 40 articles in total, divided among four chapters, that address data collection, processing and use and data security. Filing Requirement.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 16, 2022

However, basic cybersecurity tools and practices, like patching , strong passwords , and multi-factor authentication (MFA), “can prevent 80 to 90% of cyberattacks,” said Anne Neuberger, deputy national security advisor for cyber and emerging technologies, during a White House press conference in Sept. Cyberattack Statistics. Other methods.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

A malicious advertising campaign originating out of Eastern Europe and operating since at least mid-June is targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices connected to home networks, according to executives with GeoEdge, which offers ad security and quality solutions to online and mobile advertisers. IoT a Security Concern.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Security experts from Kaspersky have published an interesting report on the new trends in the IoT threat landscape. The researchers set up a honeypot to collect data on infected IoT devices, the way threat actors infect IoT devices and what families of malware are involved. Security Affairs – IoT devices, hacking ).

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

This week, we discuss new reports from Cisco, McAfee and the CSIS, and Big Brother Watch, and hear more about malicious Monero mining. Cyber security reports are a bit like the proverbial London omnibus: you seem to wait for ages, then several come along at once. Here are this week’s stories.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A misconfigured database has exposed the personal data of nearly every Ecuadorian citizen, including 6.7 The data included official government ID numbers, phone numbers, family records, birthdates, death dates (where applicable), marriage dates, education histories, and work records. million children. It contained 20.8

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

This email service was used by cybercriminals both in 2019 and especially actively in January 2020 to send false messages under the guise of reliable information about mass mining of objects in the Russian Federation,”. The post Russia’s watchdog Roskomnadzor threatens to fine Twitter and Facebook appeared first on Security Affairs.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The CNIL is one of the first EU data protection supervisory authorities to provide guidance on the compliance of Blockchain with GDPR. What solutions for a responsible use of Blockchain involving personal data? a) Data controllers. The participant is a legal entity and writes personal data on the blockchain.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this case, it looks as though the attackers had been on the Starwood network for somewhere around three years, mining out their reservations database (keep in mind that Marriott only acquired Starwood in 2016 ). But it looks like my own personal data has been breached – again. Not used in years. You should consider it too.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 12, 2018

Merriam-Webster defines big data as “an accumulation of data that is too large and complex for processing by traditional database management tools.” This is how big data analytics is enabling behavioral biometric-authentication mechanisms. This is how big data analytics is enabling behavioral biometric-authentication mechanisms.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 31, 2017

The Belgian DPA published an Opinion on a draft bill for the systematic transmission of personal data related to citizens’ use of energy to the Federal Social Security Institutions. This bill is part of the Belgian government’s initiative to fight social fraud by using data mining and data crossing.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 13, 2018

This week, in our last podcast of the year, we revisit some of the biggest information security stories from the past 12 months. As is now traditional, I’ve installed myself in the porter’s chair next to the fire in the library, ready to recap some of the year’s more newsworthy information security events. caused problems of their own.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 19, 2017

In part 2 of the series, I want to talk about data ownership and minimisation and this is all about reducing the impact on individuals and organisations alike when things do go wrong. Who Owns Our Personal Data? The owner can request the organisation provide them with a copy of their data ("right of access").

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erwin

JUNE 11, 2020

Transforming Industries with Data Intelligence. Data intelligence has provided useful and insightful information to numerous markets and industries. With tools such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Data Mining, businesses and organizations can collate and analyze large amounts of data reliably and more efficiently.

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

In fact, as technology becomes more evolutionary—think artificial intelligence and homes that can clean themselves on autopilot—your security—data or otherwise—is at risk if you do not take steps to protect yourself right now. I personally use LastPass as my preferred tool for generating random passwords and storing them.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

What if companies stopped treating consumers as wellsprings of behavioral data – data to be voraciously mined and then sold to the highest bidder? 28 earmarked as Data Privacy Day — an annual international privacy awareness campaign — these are reasonable questions to ask. Be accountable.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Bug bounties have a really interesting way of changing the economics of security flaws and reversing the outcome from one where companies and customers lose, to promoting one where everyone wins. When I run workshops , at the end of the second day I like to talk about automating security. Let's explore that further. bug bounties.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2021

I’ve had a few deep discussions about this with Doug Dooley, chief operating officer at Data Theorem , a Palo Alto, Calif.-based based software security vendor specializing in API data protection. In a sense, software updates and security patches help hackers cut through the swelling complexities of a sprawling software system.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Compromised information includes patients’ personal data, health and medical records, financial data, internal emails and software source code. Data breached: 5 TB.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

OCTOBER 31, 2018

And the ecosystem that develops around data tokens will offer it. Thanks to her Walmart experience, Michelle has become aware of the power of personal data. OfferExchange is a spinout from ProtocolLabs , a pioneer in secure blockchain software platforms like Filecoin. She needs a new question machine.

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Security Affairs

MAY 19, 2019

The best news of the week with Security Affairs. If you appreciate my effort in spreading cybersecurity awareness, please vote for Security Affairs in the section “Your Vote for the Best EU Security Tweeter” [link]. Security breach suffered by credit bureau Equifax has cost $1.4 Kindle Edition. Paper Copy.

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AIIM

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

And relying on legacy technology creates business risk because these older systems are much harder to fix when things go wrong and more vulnerable to security threats. A smarter alternative is decommissioning those legacy applications and extracting important historical data to a searchable repository, accessible for business use.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 29, 2019

British Airways e-ticketing flaw exposes passenger’s personal data (unknown). Hackers steal personal data from website of Denmark’s Tivoli Park (1,000). Canada’s Alberta Health Services says patients’ health data was compromised in email hack (7,000). European Central Bank says one its websites was hacked (481).

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Let's assume there's no further context given, it's just your legitimate personal data and it also includes your phone number, email address. and over 400 other fields of data. I searched through the csv to see if anything matched the data in the email (member number, confirmation number), but nothing matched.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Ransomware works because it relies on users’ lax security practices. One Plugin, Over 4,200 Victims – When Thousands of Government Websites Were Hijacked to Mine Monero. Data breach. Porsche Japan customers data leaked. HardwareZone Forum hit by security breach; 685,000 user profiles affected.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 16, 2019

Whilst there are many legitimate breaches that I recognise in that list, that's the extent of my verification efforts and it's entirely possible that some of them refer to services that haven't actually been involved in a data breach at all. And if you find yourself in this data and don't feel there's any value in knowing about it, ignore it.

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Troy Hunt

JULY 18, 2019

My thinking at the time was that it would make the data more easily accessible to more people to go and do awesome things; build mobile clients, integrate into security tools and surface more information to more people to enable them to do positive and constructive things with the data.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 15, 2019

Mobiispy leaked data. Two months later, critical security flaws still remained in some of the watches tested , the most egregious of which was with Gator's product: Adding to the severity of the issues, Gator Norge gave the customers of the Gator2 watches a new Gator3 watch as compensation. Wearco produces "mining consumables".

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 25, 2018

Well, May 25th is the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It’s more likely than not that any reader of mine already knows all about GDPR, but for those who don’t, it’s the most significant new framework for data regulation in recent history.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 25, 2018

Well, May 25th is the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It’s more likely than not that any reader of mine already knows all about GDPR, but for those who don’t, it’s the most significant new framework for data regulation in recent history.

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John Battelle's Searchblog

MAY 25, 2018

Well, May 25th is the day the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) goes into effect. It’s more likely than not that any reader of mine already knows all about GDPR, but for those who don’t, it’s the most significant new framework for data regulation in recent history.

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The Guardian Data Protection

DECEMBER 8, 2019

A number of tech companies – including Google – already mine small parts of the NHS store. This would be a damaging step, allowing US big tech and big pharma to collect sensitive, personal data on an unprecedented scale. Donald Trump’s officials have already made clear that this is what they are aiming for.

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