CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

million or €50 million penalty in March 2020 by the France data watchdog for failing to provide transparent information to users about its rules and regulations pertaining to data collection related to its products and services. Google was awarded $56.6

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

billion apps in 2021 alone, up more than 47 percent since 2018. This increased demand for apps also raises the need for improved data protection measures, which Google took steps to address with the new data safety section they launched in July 2022. Greediest data harvesters. In fact, Google Play users downloaded 111.3

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

link ) was posted on Pastebin , the hacker claims to have compromised user’s email and also accused ProtonMail of sending user’s decrypted data to American servers. AmFearLiathMor also wrote that ProtonMail hasn’t configured the mandatory Subresource Integrity ( SRI ) allowing tampering and data collection.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In July, DHS’s Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) suspended all federal contracts with Perceptics , a contractor which sells license-plate scanners and other border control equipment, after data collected by the company was made available for download on the dark web.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 14, 2019

In the course of further research it was revealed that GMO JS Sniffer has presumably been collecting customer payment data since November 2018. Typically, after customer data is stolen, it is usually resold on underground cardshops. Group-IB’s Threat Intelligence team discovered that GMO has been active since May 2018.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2024

“The attack vector included the scanning and identification of externally facing Mac services to include the Apple Filing Protocol (AFP, port 548), RDP, VNC, SSH (port 22), and Back to My Mac (BTMM), which would be targeted with weak passwords or passwords derived from 3rd party data breaches.”

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

This skills deficit has been the top worry of IT pros for several years, according to tech consultancy ESG’s annual survey of IT pros; some 53% of the organizations participating in ESG’s 2018 -2019 poll reported a “problematic shortage” of cybersecurity skills. Digital transformation has only exacerbated this security skills gap.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 31, 2023

Meta has run into yet another bout of court related issues—two subsidiaries have been ordered to pay $14 million regarding undisclosed data collection. Last year, Instagram received a record fine of $400m for the abuse of children’s data.

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Cytelligence

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Global cyber insurance premiums are expected to grow from $4 billion in 2018 to $20 billion by 2025. As the number of network intrusions, data breaches, ransomware attacks, and similar threats continues to increase in both frequency and severity, expertise in cyber incident response becomes critical to organizations and insurance companies.,”

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

Jared Polis, at the time Colorado’s governor-elect, speaks at a 2018 election night rally. And so as organizations collect more sensitive data, their employees should be more attuned, and… better trained on what constitutes sensitive data…”. Governor Polis last week signed the Colorado Privacy Act into law.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

Period-tracking app users scrambled to find the most secure app online , and one period-tracking app maker promised to encrypt user data so that, even if law enforcement made a request for their data, the data would be unintelligible. In August, the company confirmed a data breach that affected 5.4 million.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 30, 2021

Any sanctions, watch lists and so on… I don’t need to know the underlying report and the data that comes with the background check report… Let’s say this person is divorced, and he’s got three kids, he bought a car in 2018, and he’s got a mortgage payment or a lease. Especially in the gig economy.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Already, the cookies acceptance feature has been part of EU’s General Data Protection Regulation that came into effect in May 2018. By doing so, ICO wants to aim for a unified data protection for all web users in European Union. Note- GDPR allows web users to export their data and delete it as per their choice.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

As part of the 2021 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a comprehensive law that "will provide New Yorkers with transparency and control over their personal data and provide new privacy protections.". New York has already had laws on the books related to data security. It failed to progress in either sessions.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 30, 2018

On the heels of the sweeping Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that took effect on May 25, 2018, the state of California moved quickly, passing its version of a consumer privacy law a month later, on June 28th. Right to DELETE your data. We’ve seen these issues around data breach notification laws.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MARCH 23, 2018

On March 14, 2018, IBM Security announced the results of a new global study on organizational cybersecurity readiness and resiliency entitled “The 2018 Cyber Resilient Organization.” 23% of respondents say they do not currently have a CISO or security leader.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 11, 2022

In the ever-evolving fight against data loss , data breaches, and data theft in the 21st century, organizations worldwide have turned to a number of cybersecurity solutions, services, and software in an attempt to keep their data safe and secure from threats. Why Use Behavioral Analytics in Cybersecurity?

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Spinone

JULY 3, 2020

and you interact with their data in any way – you fall under the GDPR. You can remember the massive story with Facebook’s misuse of customer information in 2018; other big players like British Airways and Marriott International have also suffered from €200 million and €99 million GDPR fines , respectively.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 28, 2021

The General Data Protection Regulation is a robust set of rules for data protection created by the European Union (EU), replacing much older rules from the 1990s. It was adopted in 2016 and enforcement began in 2018. Crucially, should you get your data protection wrong somewhere along the way, big fines may follow.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 11, 2019

Since the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect on May 25th last year, data protection has become a very hot topic. On May 22, 2019, the European Commission published an infographic on compliance with and enforcement of the GDPR from May 2018 to May 2019 and it is clear that a lot of work still needs to be done.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As organizations deploy new tools to fight the spread of COVID-19 – including contact tracing apps, digital monitoring, home tests and vaccine appointment booking – US Democrats have introduced a bill seeking to set strong and enforceable privacy and data security rights for health information.

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