The Last Watchdog

APRIL 19, 2022

Individuals who possess security clearances are not prohibited from traveling to foreign countries; however, there are certain acts and behaviors that may raise foreign influence and/or foreign preference concerns. The conflict in Ukraine has the potential to further alienate Russia and place Russia in a category much like North Korea.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This blog post will dive into these questions, providing all the essential details. The New Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG-new): Replacing its predecessor on May 25, 2018, it aligns German privacy laws with GDPR and the EU-Privacy Directive. But what does this mean for data subjects, and how can they enforce their privacy rights?

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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. 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. Identity theft also affects around 1.4

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 25, 2021

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. What the GDPR says about biometrics.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

While there are several types of proxies, we can easily group them into two categories based on the types of internet protocols (IP) they offer. These two categories are data center and residential proxies. Proxies are servers or computers that act as intermediaries and help route your requests to target destinations.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As more health-focused applications go to market, application developers need to know how Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) compliance fits into their coding practices. What are HIPAA and the HITECH Act? HIPAA outlines three categories of covered entities and an additional business associate category.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 10, 2023

Using this information, last year I wrote a blog summing up the nine top of mind issues I believed will most impact CISOs as we headed into 2022. For more practical advice on this topic, I also wrote a blog on some of the challenges and opportunities within the cyber liability insurance market back in June which you can read here.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 6, 2022

The payload is a PowerShell script that is Base64-encoded and acts as a downloader to retrieve a second stage PowerShell script from a remote server named “seller-notification[.]live.” Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Vishing “While email may still be the most common mechanism for social engineering, we increasingly see attacks via social media, platforms such as WhatsApp, physical compromise, snail mail, and phone calls,” says ethical hacker FC in a blog. The best way of doing this is to pause, think about the conversation, and then act.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Using this option the actors were able to let the app fetch the currently active URL that acted as a C&C server. By using the geo-specific sites and the spread across multiple categories of apps, the campaign was able to ensnare mobile users from more than 70 countries.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals Risk Level. In another ACT post we talked about a process in cybersecurity that we call “vulnerability management.” You might be watching the local nightly news, or reading the Hive Systems blog , and see something that may impact you! Read more of the ACT. Let's Assess.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 15, 2019

375 the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), making California the first U.S. Last August, my colleague Ashvin Kamaraju wrote a blog shortly after this took place. A key variation with GDPR is the word “household” which adds more complexity to the implementation of the Act. state to pass its own data privacy law.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

The scenarios acting as C2 scripts for intercepted credentials collection were also hosted on various hacked WEB-resources, leveraging domains having similar spelling to the names of existing corporations. Please vote for Security Affairs and Pierluigi Paganini in every category that includes them (e.g. To nominate, please visit:?.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 23, 2022

I wrote many blog posts about doing big things for small dollars and did talks all over the world about the great success I'd had with these approaches. I already needed to do better at monitoring this and I should have set up cost alerts - and acted on them - way earlier. Windows NT; Windows NT 10.0;

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Duo's Security Blog

JULY 15, 2021

Part of our Administrator's Guide to Passwordless blog series See the video at the blog post. The other category of WebAuthn-compliant authenticators are roaming authenticators. This general category of attacks is known as QRLJacking. In some ways, the term “passwordless” is a misnomer.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 10, 2022

Category Awareness, Case Study, Vulnerability. One such example of a successful nation state initiated DDoS attack used as a retaliatory tactic against a victim’s infrastructure and public services occurred in June 2022 in Lithuania, and is well documented and described by Elizabeth Montalbano in a June 2022 blog post at ThreatPost.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 11, 2024

This category also includes routers, switches, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices that can’t install traditional endpoint protection such as antivirus (AV) or endpoint detection and response (EDR) solutions. Sophos X-Ops illustrates how remote encryption operates beyond security tool detection. Which Unmanaged Devices Do Attackers Use?

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Category Cybersecurity Fundamentals Risk Level. These represent the frequencies in GHz of the radio waves carrying the Internet from your router, and they will both provide you access to your favorite blogs (ours of course!). Read more of the ACT. Some routers have two SSIDs (i.e. next to it and the other with 5.

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BH Consulting

JULY 14, 2021

The agency acted to help companies that adopted new technologies during Covid-19, but failed to update their security accordingly. Our data protection consultant Tom Knierim pondered this very problem, and blogged about it in May. MORE ICS-focused but still plenty of good incident response insights from this SANS blog.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This blog is the first in a series where I will cover what a cyberattack involves, outline how it’s carried out, and explain how it might differ depending on your chosen technology platform. The framework divides attacks into 14 separate categories and provides in-depth descriptions of the techniques associated with each one.

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 4, 2024

Act : This phase segregates identified vulnerabilities into three categories—remediate, mitigate, or accept. The acceptance category may include devices or software earmarked for replacement, requiring no immediate action. Compliance standards often dictate the specific requirements for assessment frequency.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

EDR is a category of tools designed to continuously monitor the intricate web of cyber threats on endpoints across a network. Gartner introduced this category in 2013, recognizing the imperative for tools that could provide visibility into the often overlooked endpoints within a network.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

Back in October, we blogged about how phishing scams are becoming more common. Remind people that we tend to put email and text messages into the ‘urgent and important’ category. So instead of replying or acting right away, pause and wait until you can verify the message on a laptop or desktop PC. Warning signs.

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Cisco Security

JANUARY 22, 2021

They fit nicely into categories like external attackers or insider threats. In this blog series, the Magic of Mitigations , we’ve highlighted Mitigations as MITRE’s recommendations against attacker behavior. We make policy enforcement simple and consistent, so that you can act quickly and with confidence. And the best part?

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Those efforts fall into the business email compromise (BEC) category. That’s enough genuine information for the recipients to act without looking at the rest of the email address too closely. Think Before You Act. Barracuda’s study examined 3,000 such attacks. It found that 60% percent did not contain links.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 18, 2024

Electronic Evidence Digital data stored on systems, servers, and networks, including log files, configuration settings, and other digital artifacts, encompass this category. Use well-defined categories and labels to make it simple for auditors to locate appropriate and sufficient audit evidence.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Some of the most important controls to consider will fall into these 4 categories: Technical Controls : This covers both hardware and software that is used to protect systems, networks and organizations. Controls are often categorized as administrative, technical or physical. Extensive lists can be found online.

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Webroot

APRIL 15, 2021

These can be broken down into two categories: Blue Teams and Red Teams. You act as the lead generator and offer their services as an adjunct to your own. appeared first on Webroot Blog. So, what types of testing methods are there? In other words, tools are specific to the environment.).

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BH Consulting

DECEMBER 14, 2020

This is the second blog in our series on the evolving international transfers landscape following the Court of Justice of the European Union [ CJEU ] decision in July 2020 which ruled the Privacy Shield data transfer mechanism invalid. The final blog in our series will explain the new standard contractual clauses and how to implement them.

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Centraleyes

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

HIPAA, or the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996, is a federal law, whereas HITRUST is a comprehensive control framework. ” HIPAA: An Overview HIPAA, short for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, is a pivotal U.S.

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Google Security

MAY 11, 2022

This blog will deep dive into the method of phishing and how it has evolved today. The simplest approach is an almost off-the-shelf "reverse proxy" which acts as a "person in the middle", forwarding the victim's inputs to the legitimate page and sending the response from the legitimate page back to the victim's browser.

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Cisco Security

AUGUST 12, 2021

It is a balancing act that the NOC team enjoys creating at each conference. SECURITY CATEGORY (PHISHING). Look for a blog from Aditya on how he accomplished this with SecureX orchestration. This way, those who are delivering presentations and demos can still reach their attended target, but unaware attendees can be protected.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2020

They fear that consumer-friendly AI ethics regulations could extend out of new, prescriptive data security and privacy protections laws, such as the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, (GDPR) or the newly minted California Consumer Privacy Act (CPPA.) AI tools are designed to put people into categories, Shashanka says.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

JUNE 23, 2021

The EU, in particular, has long been attentive to cybersecurity, adopting the NIS Directive in 2016 and, subsequently, Regulation 2019/881 – the Cybersecurity Act. Receive our latest blog posts by email. Each type of incident is then assigned an identification code followed by a brief description. 4] Pursuant to Article 1, para.

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Centraleyes

APRIL 15, 2024

Notably, the Maryland Online Data Privacy Act incorporates essential data minimization concepts and robust civil rights safeguards from that model. These thresholds make MODPA one of the country’s most comprehensive consumer data privacy laws, aligning closely with the New Hampshire Privacy Act.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

IT security compliance acts as a shield, preventing damage to an organization’s reputation. Different categories of personal information may be subject to additional controls under various regulations. Building Trust: Maintaining clients’ or customers’ trust is paramount.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The European Union (EU) has taken a bold step forward by introducing the EU AI Act to govern the development and use of AI technologies within its borders. Let’s explore the multifaceted impact of the EU AI Act on compliance.

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