BH Consulting

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This is the first in a series of blogs exploring what this decision means for you. The blog series will be followed by a free webinar with our data protection experts. surveillance law in Section 702 FISA and EO 12333 , which can give the US authorities access to any transferred data. The DPC rejected his complaint.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

In this blog, we will take a closer look at what privacy data is and share details about how you can keep yourself safe. This number represents your identity according to your birth certificate within the local government in your state and throughout the United States. Login information for online accounts you have.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 13, 2019

billion IoT devices in use as of 2017, half are consumer gadgets, like smart TVs, speakers, watches, baby cams and home thermostats; much of the rest is made up of things like smart electric meters and security cameras in corporate and government use. Industry standards-setting bodies and government regulators recognize what’s at stake.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 27, 2020

That surveillance has helped to paint a detailed picture of how business ID thieves operate, as well as the tricks they use to gain credit in a company’s name. For both dormant and existing businesses, the fraudsters attempt to create or modify the target company’s accounts at Dun & Bradstreet. ” PHANTOM OFFICES.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Pegasus is the creation of the NSO Group , an Israeli firm that licenses it to governments to perform surveillance. The spyware allows governments to crack citizen’s mobile devices, track them, and observe their communications. The Indian Government responded by denying they use Pegasus to target non-criminals.

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DoublePulsar

APRIL 20, 2023

Capita handle £6.5billion of UK government contracts. Here’s a writeup from Kroll on a typical Black Basta incident: Qakbot has been around for many years, and is under heavy surveillance by both commercial CTI providers and independent security researchers. Why does this matter? Go in hard. Go in hard. Go in hard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

DECEMBER 22, 2020

As a result, data has become a critical asset for companies and governments alike, as well as the primary target for nefarious actors and nation states. Multinationals face difficult and unique compliance challenges to successfully meet the ongoing waves of government regulations for data privacy and security. In the Dec.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 4, 2022

Privacy advocates support E2EE because, they argue, it ensures online users are free from the threat of unauthorized surveillance from service providers, government agencies, cybercriminals and any other threat actors. But end-to-end encryption has become a hot-button topic since it goes to the heart of privacy vs public good concerns.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

government — along with a number of leading security companies — recently warned about a series of highly complex and widespread attacks that allowed suspected Iranian hackers to siphon huge volumes of email passwords and other sensitive data from multiple governments and private companies. That changed on Jan.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

They all must have unique identifiers and the ability to collect and transfer data over networks to enable monitoring, surveillance, and execution of decisions based on the collected data with little or no human intervention. But making the IoT work requires trust in the devices and the data they collect.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Privacy Standards Audit (Not required for Business Associates) This audit focuses on assessing compliance with HIPAA Privacy Standards, which govern the use and disclosure of PHI. Surveillance systems. Its aim is to enhance transparency and accountability following a breach. Emergency response plans. Visitor logs and badges.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 16, 2023

Days after Meta achieved victory after suing the NSO Group for Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charges, Meta filed a lawsuit against surveillance company Voyager Labs for violations of its Terms and Policies and California law. Court documents show that no later than July 2022, Voyager began using its thousands of fake accounts to scrape data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2023

At least five members of civil society worldwide have been targeted with spyware and exploits developed by surveillance firm QuaDream. Citizen Lab researchers reported that at least five civil society members were victims of spyware and exploits developed by the Israeli surveillance firm QuaDream. ” concludes Citizen Lab.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. LW: Is this primarily aimed at enterprises, SMBs or individuals?

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 29, 2022

It involves compromising email accounts and websites tied to police departments and government agencies, and then sending unauthorized demands for subscriber data while claiming the information being requested can’t wait for a court order because it relates to an urgent matter of life and death. THE LAPSUS$ CONNECTION.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2019

WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group, accusing it of using a flaw in its messaging service to conduct cyberespionage on journalists and activists. WhatsApp sued the Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group accusing it of carrying out malicious attacks against its users. This abuse must be stopped. ” reads the lawsuit.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Our last edition of privacy predictions focused on a few important trends where business and government interests intersect, with regulators becoming more active in a wide array of privacy issues. This showed how consumer data collection can directly impact the relationships between citizens and governments.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Once inside a victim company’s bank accounts, the crooks would modify the firm’s payroll to add dozens of “ money mules ,” people recruited through work-at-home schemes to handle bank transfers. “In early October, the Ukrainian surveillance team said they’d lost him,” he wrote.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2023

Nominate here: [link] Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter) The post Security Affairs newsletter Round 413 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition appeared first on Security Affairs.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

This system enforces security, compliance, and governance policies within our cloud applications. IT lacks formal licensing by the government. I attend industry conferences, write blog posts, and spend time with others in my field to help further the profession. What prompted you to do that?

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BH Consulting

MAY 25, 2022

This blog is here to guide you through topical trends to note as we enter GDPR’s fifth year. An example is the ePrivacy Regulation which governs electronic communications. The Digital Services Act (DSA) will regulate the obligations and accountability of online intermediaries and platforms which we use every day.

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Notice Bored

JUNE 23, 2022

Having recently blogged about the dreaded SoA , 'nuff said on that. Risk owner(s); Casually hinting at what can be a very useful governance approach and risk management mechanism - except the hint is so subtle as to be easily overlooked. Today I'm picking up on the SoA 's shy little brother, the R isk T reatment P lan.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 26, 2023

These are: The Digital Services Act The Digital Markets Act The EU Data Act The Data Governance Act The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act In our previous blog series (part one and part two ) we discussed four of the five new Directives, and how they will affect organisations.

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Troy Hunt

DECEMBER 4, 2017

I read this while wandering around in LA on my way home from sitting in front of US Congress and explaining security principles to a government so it felt like a timely opportunity to share my own view on the matter: This illustrates a fundamental lack of privacy and security education. Identity, Accountability and Plausible Deniability.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2023

Google said it believes the exploit chain for Samsung devices belonged to a “commercial surveillance vendor,” without elaborating further. “At present, a large number of end users have complained on multiple social platforms,” reads a translated version of the DarkNavy blog post. and Western interests.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In June, more than six months after DarkHalo had gone dark, we observed the DNS hijacking of multiple government zones of a CIS member state that allowed the attacker to redirect traffic from government mail servers to computers under their control – probably achieved by obtaining credentials to the control panel of the victims’ registrar.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 2, 2023

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. I was able to find his Instagram account. So I spent a lot of time on IRC when I was a kid.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In a blog post , Tom Burt, corporate vice president of customer security and trust at Microsoft, wrote that the hacker group Nobelium is looking to use the same pathways that it leveraged in its attack on SolarWinds and its customers by compromising a set of companies to gain access to their customers. Old Attack Techniques Resurface.

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Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beneath almost all of the testimony, the manifestoes, the blog posts, and the public declarations issued about AI are battles among deeply divided factions. It’s also a contest about control and power, about how resources should be distributed and who should be held accountable. The reality, unfortunately, is quite different.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

APRIL 9, 2020

Chantal Bernier, National Practice Leader, Privacy and Cybersecurity, and Trevor Neiman, Dentons Canada, adapting “Pandemics in a Connected World: Integrating Privacy with Public Health Surveillance,” by Chantal Bernier, Liane Fong and Timothy M. Banks, in the University of New Brunswick Law Journal , volume 66 at page 117.

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SecureList

JULY 29, 2021

According to public blogs, targeting was widespread but focused primarily on diplomatic entities throughout Europe and North America: based on the content of the lure documents bundled with the malware, this assessment appears to be accurate. The execution chain ultimately ended with a Cobalt Strike beacon payload being loaded into memory.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 4, 2019

The types of activities for which the most complaints have been made so far are telemarketing, promotional e-mails and vdeo surveillance/CCTV. The post GDPR One Year Anniversary: What We’ve Learned So Far appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity. 20% know which public authority is responsible. What lies ahead.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2022

for “deceptive statements” the company and its founder allegedly made over how they handle facial recognition data collected on behalf of the Internal Revenue Service , which until recently required anyone seeking a new IRS account online to provide a live video selfie to ID.me. ” But several days after a Jan. ’ ID.me

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