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Camera tricks: Privacy concerns raised after massive surveillance cam breach

SC Magazine

A hacking collective compromised roughly 150,000 internet-connected surveillance cameras from Verkada, Inc., Hacktivist Tillie Kottmann is reportedly among those asserting responsibility for the incident, telling Bloomberg that their act helped expose the security holes of modern-day surveillance platforms.

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FTC begins sweeping commercial surveillance and lax data security rulemaking process

CSO Magazine

Data breaches exposing consumers’ sensitive information continue unabated even as organizations amass and sell vast sets of consumers’ personal, financial, and location data to a thriving data broker industry.

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BrandPost: Hunting Hackers: Reducing the Time to Discovery

CSO Magazine

Research conducted by IBM and the Ponemon Institute shows the time to detect a data breach for businesses averages 280 days - a significant gap between the time a network is compromised and its discovery.