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CCTV & Surveillance: Insights from the DPC annual report for Irish Local Authorities

BH Consulting

State sector surveillance as well as local authorities’ use of CCTV cameras was a key focus for the DPC in 2020 as highlighted in the recently published DPC annual report. Primary areas of focus for the DPC in 2020 included enforcement (under both GDPR & ePrivacy), breach notifications, data transfers and surveillance.

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Patch now! Insecure Hikvision security cameras can be taken over remotely

Malwarebytes

Its business activities include the provision of services for hard disk recorders, video codes, video servers, surveillance cameras, monitoring of ball machine, road mounts and other products, as well as security services. The company was founded on November 30, 2001 and is headquartered in Hangzhou, China.

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UN approves Russia-Cina sponsored resolution on new cybercrime convention

Security Affairs

Many governments worldwide persecute their internal oppositions charging them with criminal activities and use strict online surveillance to track them. The surveillance software developed by NSO Group was used by government organizations worldwide to spy on human rights groups , activists, journalists, lawyers, and dissidents.

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Ross Anderson

Schneier on Security

It was well before 2001, when we created the Workshop on Economics and Information Security. He fought against surveillance and back doors, and for academic freedom. Ross Anderson unexpectedly passed away Thursday night in, I believe, his home in Cambridge. I can’t remember when I first met Ross.

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Top VC Firms in Cybersecurity of 2022

eSecurity Planet

Company Sector Year Status Noname API security 2021 Private Qualys Security and compliance 2020 Nasdaq: QLYS Attivo Networks Identity solutions 2017 Acquired: SentinelOne AlienVault Enterprise cybersecurity 2012 Acquired: AT&T Zone Labs Endpoint security 2001 Acquired: Check Point. AllegisCyber Capital. Greylock Partners.

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Over 100 million Hikvision devices hit by critical cyber vulnerability

CyberSecurity Insiders

China-based video surveillance related product offering company Hikvision has issued a security advisory saying that all those using their security cameras and NVRs must know a critical vulnerability on its devices that could allow hackers to take control of the cameras and use them as bots to launch DDoS or other related attacks.