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GUEST ESSAY: How stricter data privacy laws have redefined the ‘filing’ of our personal data

The Last Watchdog

Related: GDPR and the new privacy paradigm. Since it took effect in 2018, GDPR’s core guidelines have been copied by LGDP in Brazil , POPIA in South Africa , and the PDPB in India. For one, it’s estimated that 80 percent of the data gathered by organizations is unstructured; this includes text, video, audio and image files.

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Sharenting, BYOD and Kids Online: 10 Digital Tips for Modern Day Parents

Troy Hunt

Having just gone through the BYOD process with my 10-year old son at school (and witnessing the confusion and disinformation from parents and teachers alike), now seemed like a good time to outline some fundamentals whilst sitting on a plane heading down to Sydney to do some adult-related cyber things!

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CVE-2018-14023 – Recovering expired messages from Signal

Security Affairs

CVE: CVE-2018-14023. Public Disclosure: 17/08/2018. 10 finally addressed the problem. Below a video PoC of the vulnerability: Solution. The post CVE-2018-14023 – Recovering expired messages from Signal appeared first on Security Affairs. Risk level: 4 / 5. Credit: Leonardo Porpora – ‘n0sign4l’.

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GUEST ESSAY: Australia’s move compelling VPNs to cooperate with law enforcement is all wrong

The Last Watchdog

Related: California enacts pioneering privacy law. However, it looks like things are starting to break apart now that Australia has passed the “Telecommunications and Other Legislation Amendment (Assistance and Access) Bill 2018”. You know, this revolutionary idea called “privacy” Anyone?

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MY TAKE: How consumer-grade VPNs are enabling individuals to do DIY security

The Last Watchdog

Related: Privacy war: Apple vs. Facebook. Then about 10 years ago, consumer-grade virtual private networks, or VPNs, came along, providing a pretty nifty little tool that any individual could use to deflect invasive online tracking. Then about 10 years ago along came consumer-grade VPNs.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2018 – 145,942,680 records leaked

IT Governance

Canada Revenue Agency logs 2,338 privacy breaches in just under 2 years. Video-sharing site AcFun urges users to change passwords after nearly 10 million users have data leaked. Video-sharing site AcFun urges users to change passwords after nearly 10 million users have data leaked.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2018 – 17,273,571 records leaked

IT Governance

Police Dept Loses 10 Months of Work to Ransomware. Privacy Commissioner says Avenue Living privacy breach poses a risk. Crown Prosecution Service fined £325,000 after losing victim interview videos. Notice to Individuals Regarding Privacy Incident Involving Capitol Administrators, Inc. Gets Infected a Second Time!