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News alert: NCA’s Data Privacy Week webinars highlight data protection for consumers, businesses

The Last Watchdog

Through Data Privacy Week we hope to inspire better data stewardship and empower people to reclaim control of their digital footprints, balancing innovation with privacy.” This even includes information about a person’s physical well-being, like health data from apps.

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Promising Jobs at the U.S. Postal Service, ‘US Job Services’ Leaks Customer Data

Krebs on Security

By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. Postal Service are breaking federal law,” the joint USPS-FTC statement said. In that 1998 case, the defendants behind the scheme were taking out classified ads in newspapers. Ditto for a case the FTC brought in 2005.

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What To Know About Privacy Data

Identity IQ

For example, some countries may use a singular set of data protection regulations, whereas the United States decided to divide the data protection law into multiple categories. Let’s take a closer look at the specific data privacy laws that have been implemented in the U.S.:

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Indicators of compromise (IOCs): how we collect and use them

SecureList

We have been doing so since 2008, benefiting from Kaspersky’s decades of cyberthreat data management, and unrivaled technologies. This is the most precious source of intelligence as it provides unique and reliable data from trusted systems and technologies. But why are we offering cyber threat intelligence at all?

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StripedFly: Perennially flying under the radar

SecureList

Supported Windows versions include Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2, Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, and Windows 10 up to build 14392. This is the only task that works in the Linux version of the malware. Recon module This module compiles extensive system information and transmits it to the C2 server upon connection.

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Who is the Network Access Broker ‘Wazawaka?’

Krebs on Security

Wazawaka used multiple email addresses and nicknames on several Russian crime forums, but data collected by cybersecurity firm Constella Intelligence show that Wazawaka’s alter egos always used one of three fairly unique passwords: 2k3x8x57 , 2k3X8X57 , and 00virtual. ” WHO IS WAZAWAKA? Matveyev , in Abakan, Khakassia.

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$12m Grindr fine shows GDPR’s got teeth

Malwarebytes

Data privacy, and privacy policies, are an “uncool” story for many. Yet much of the bad old days of Adware/spyware from 2005 – 2008 was dependent on bad policies and leaky data sharing. Everyone wants to see the latest hacks, or terrifying takeovers. While companies would occasionally be brought before the FTC , this was rare.