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Fixing Data Breaches Part 1: Education

Troy Hunt

Let's get started with one I raised multiple times whilst sitting in front of Congress - education. Data Breaches Occur Due to Human Error. Nowhere is it truer than with data breaches and it's the most logical place to start this series. Education is the Best ROI on Security Spend. People Don't Know What They Don't Know.

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Cyber Playbook: Information Technology vs Operational Technology – How to Leverage IT to Secure Your OT Systems

Herjavec Group

Information Technology (IT) primarily refers to hardware, software, and communications technologies like networking equipment and modems that are used to store, recover, transmit, manipulate, and protect data. . Operational technology has seen innovations that allowed it to become safer, more efficient, and more reliable.

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IT threat evolution Q3 2024

SecureList

CloudSorcerer is a sophisticated cyber-espionage tool used for stealth monitoring, data collection and exfiltration via Microsoft, Yandex and Dropbox cloud infrastructures. Affiliates are explicitly instructed to target organizations with a minimum revenue of $10 million and to avoid hospitals and educational institutions.

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FTC finds social media and video streaming services engaged in vast surveillance of consumers

Malwarebytes

The conclusions seemed to upset the FTC, but we weren’t even mildly surprised: “The amount of data collected by large tech companies is simply staggering. The technology powering this ecosystem took place behind the scenes and out of view to consumers, posing significant privacy risks.

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Scott Hermann, CEO of IDIQ, Joins Entryway’s National Board of Directors

Identity IQ

Hermann’s deep expertise in identity theft protection, credit and financial education and leveraging data to implement scalable business solutions will immediately benefit Entryway as the organization works to create efficiencies through data collection to serve a greater number of at-risk individuals and families across all of its program markets.

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Hackers Could Cause ‘Fake Earthquakes’ by Exploiting Vulnerable Seismic Equipment, Researchers Warn

Hot for Security

Hackers could trigger ‘fake earthquakes,’ affecting emergency and economic responses to a seismic event, and generate mistrust in seismic technology among the population, the researchers say.

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MY TAKE: Apple users show strong support for Tim Cook’s privacy war against Mark Zuckerberger

The Last Watchdog

This colorful chapter in the history of technology and society isn’t just breezing by unnoticed. The largest players in the tech industry need to demonstrate that they can self-regulate, or else lawmakers will take over a core asset of their business – consumer data – as demonstrated by California’s consumer privacy act.