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Are DDoS Simulation Tests Legal?

Security Boulevard

DDoS simulation tests fall into a different legal category than real DDoS attacks carried out by hackers. However, the law also specifies that the action must be “without authorization […] The post Are DDoS Simulation Tests Legal? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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FISMA Compliance: A Complete Guide to Navigating Low, Moderate, and High Levels

Centraleyes

The resulting security category for this information type is expressed as: “Security Category public information = {(confidentiality, n/a), (integrity, moderate), (availability, moderate)}.” The idea is that the security category should reflect the most significant potential impact.

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Microsoft seized 41 domains used by Iran-linked Bohrium APT

Security Affairs

Microsoft’s Digital Crimes Unit (DCU) announced to have taken legal action to disrupt a spear-phishing operation linked to Iran-linked APT Bohrium. Our team has taken legal action to disrupt a spear-phishing operation linked to Bohrium, a threat actor from Iran. Middle East, and India. Middle East, and India. Pierluigi Paganini.

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How Machine Learning Can Accelerate and Improve the Accuracy of Sensitive Data Classification

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This blog will explain how Thales is enhancing CipherTrust Data Discovery and Classification (DDC) with ML models that help analyze data, learn from insights, and improve results. CipherTrust DDC uses a ML model for category classification to identify with high probability whether a document is healthcare, finance, legal or HR related.

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Biometrics: Does GDPR mean thumbs down for fingerprint scanners in the workplace?

BH Consulting

This blog will look at the issue relating to employee data. The regulation has specific safeguards when processing what is known as special category personal data. As Article 9 makes clear, this category includes biometric data like fingerprints. It’s necessary for legal claims or defence.

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GUEST ESSAY: A breakout of how Google, Facebook, Instagram enable third-party snooping

The Last Watchdog

Among the app categories, shopping, business, and food & drink were found to be sharing the most user data. So it’s best to think twice before downloading an app from one of these categories, especially if it’s free and/or popular. Greediest data harvesters. Social media and business apps collect the most data.

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SideWinder carried out over 1,000 attacks since April 2020

Security Affairs

In most recent attacks, the threat actors also targeted departments of Foreign Affairs, Scientific and Defence organisations, Aviation, IT industry and Legal firms. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. To nominate, please visit:? Pierluigi Paganini.