Schneier on Security

APRIL 24, 2024

As to privacy, consent authorizes and legitimizes a wide range of data collection and processing. Rather than provide extensive legitimacy and power, murky consent should authorize only a very restricted and weak license to use data. There are generally two approaches to consent in privacy law.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 27, 2023

Why Overthinking Risk Will Turn You into Stone Risk is an enabler of Analysis Paralysis. Organizations invest vast amounts of money, time, and human capital in identifying, analyzing, and reporting potential risks within their domain. Risk exists no matter what an organization is involved in.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

In a recent study of 1,237 Chrome extensions with a minimum of 1,000 downloads, Incogni researchers found that nearly half ask for permissions that could potentially expose personally identifiable information (PII), distribute adware and malware , or even log everything users do online, including accessing passwords and financial data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 18, 2021

It’s never been more important to protect employees from cyber-attacks while also mitigating the risk they pose as trusted insiders. Dtex’s Workforce Cyber Intelligence Platform enables organizations better understand their workforce, protect their data and make human-centric operational investments.

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CSO Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2022

have questioned its data collection practices and potential ties to the Chinese state. The concerns have deepened after Buzzfeed published a report saying that data of some American users had been repeatedly accessed from China. The short-video platform TikTok has come under fire in recent months.

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Schneier on Security

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Claude’s reply: Here’s a brief summary of the key themes and arguments made in security expert Bruce Schneier’s book Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly About Security in an Uncertain World : Central Themes: Effective security requires realistic risk assessment, not fear-driven responses. Focus only on proportional responses.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 18, 2024

How do we gauge how risky it is and how do we ensure that future APIs are not putting the enterprise at risk? This can not be done without major risk unless organizations have created and mandated corporate standards on what a "good" API actually is from a security standpoint. Defining and sharing what good means.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Data collection and use policies need to be reexamined because of AI. The FTC is trying to address the issue. The post TEGWAR, AI and the FTC – Gov’t Agency Warns of Deceptive AI Contract Language appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The boundaries between research and grey data are blurring, making it more difficult to assess the risks and responsibilities associated with any data collection. Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2023

While WeMystic has since closed the database, researchers said that the data was accessible for at least five days. One of the data collections in the exposed instance, named “users,” contained a whopping 13.3 Do you want to know the risks faced by users whose data has been exposed? million records.

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TrustArc

MARCH 3, 2022

Your Privacy Spreadsheets Might be Putting Your Organization at Risk Years ago, it was possible to manage a privacy program using spreadsheets. However, with the massive increase in data collection and new privacy regulations, those privacy spreadsheets are starting to add up. A […].

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Schneier on Security

JULY 1, 2021

It is important to remember that the primary purpose of cyber insurance is not to improve cyber security, but to transfer residual risk. As such, it should be one of many tools that governments and businesses can draw on to manage cyber risk more effectively. Often, that’s paying the ransom.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Canada banned the Chinese messaging app WeChat and Kaspersky antivirus on government mobile devices due to privacy and security risks. The Government of Canada announced a ban on the use of the WeChat and Kaspersky applications on government-issued mobile devices due to privacy and security risks.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The Philippine defense warned of the risks of using AI-based applications to generate personal portraits and ordered its personnel to stop using them. The order remarks that these AI-based applications pose significant privacy and security risks. On October 14, Defense Secretary Gilberto Teodoro Jr. issued the order in an Oct.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

SIEM products and services combine log data collection and reporting with real-time analysis of security alerts generated by applications and network hardware. To read this article in full, please click here

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 14, 2019

So they began inundating their third-party suppliers with “bespoke assessments” – customized cyber risk audits that were time consuming and redundant. Kneip also painted the wider context about why effective third-party cyber risk management is an essential ingredient to baking-in security at a foundational level. We take that away.

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Tech Republic Security

APRIL 12, 2021

The platform's aggressive approach to data collection could put brand reputation, personal identity and even national security at risk.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 3, 2023

Summary The BloodHound code-convergence project brings some significant and long-desired feature enhancements to BloodHound Enterprise (BHE): Cypher search, including pre-built queries for AD and Azure Built-in support for offline data collection (i.e.,

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Centraleyes

MARCH 27, 2024

Organizations must establish robust governance structures, implement effective risk management strategies, and continually adapt their AI management practices in response to technological advancements. Planning : Addressing risks and opportunities, setting AI objectives, and planning for changes.

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Cytelligence

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It heightens our awareness of extensive data collection about us, revealing potential uses and instigating concerns about potential misuse. Privacy policies from these tech giants, while intricate, are crucial in understanding the data collected and its uses. The impact of Big Tech on privacy is multifaceted.

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CSO Magazine

APRIL 5, 2022

Organizations must know what assets are deployed on the external/internal attack surface, understand the state of these assets, identify exposures, prioritize remediation actions based on risk, and work with IT operations on continuous risk mitigation.

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Schneier on Security

AUGUST 25, 2020

reproduce those results and extend the original work to detail the privacy risk posed by the aggregation of browsing histories. Our dataset consists of two weeks of browsing data from ~52,000 Firefox users. The original work demonstrated that browsing profiles are highly distinctive and stable.We

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

–( BUSINESS WIRE )–MITRE and DTEX Systems , the Workforce Cyber Intelligence & Security Company , today announced a partnership to elevate insider risk awareness and human-informed cyber defense strategies through behavioral-based research and the launch of the MITRE Inside-R Protect program. . & MCLEAN, Va.–(

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 8, 2021

Researchers now believe that the rapid adoption of these skills could have implications for information security as they could open Alexa users up to phishing or invasive data collection. The post Amazon Alexa Skills Present Security Risks appeared first on eSecurityPlanet. What is an Amazon Alexa Skill?

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 6, 2023

(No, you aren't) Global ransomware attacks at an all-time high, shows latest 2023 State of Ransomware report Phishing campaigns are using AMP URLs to avoid detection Minecraft fans beware: Players and servers at risk from BleedingPipe vulnerability Ivanti patches second zero-day vulnerability being used in attacks Public companies must now disclose (..)

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2023

However, contrary to popular belief, data collected by the CrowdSec network indicates that VPNs and proxies play a far less significant role in cybercriminal activities. Low MD translates to a lower risk for a business to inherit a machine that has been flagged as malevolent.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 20, 2021

According to a media update released by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) the new law called the Personal Information Protection Law(PIPL) will come into force from October 26th,2021 and will aim to standardize solutions pertaining to data security risks in automobile sector.

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CSO Magazine

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Marketers want to collect data about customers and their devices. Privacy officers want to ensure the data collection process is fully compliant with privacy regulations. And security and risk professionals want to ensure the integrity of accounts and minimize fraudulent usages of customer credentials.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 6, 2023

Introduction By reducing information risks and vulnerabilities, a process called information security, also referred to as infosec, protects electronic data. Data collection, organization, processing, and deletion are all included in the definition of data management.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 17, 2024

As adoption accelerates, so too do emerging cybersecurity risks. The report maps out a detailed taxonomy of current adversarial threats to AI systems across different modalities such as computer vision, natural language processing, speech recognition, and tabular data analytics. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 16, 2024

July 1st brings two key CCPA deadlines : organizations must clearly explain how consumers can opt out of data sharing using standardized mechanisms, and they must obtain fresh consent for processing any sensitive data collected before July 1, 2023. The Texas SCOPE Act sets its sights on safeguarding children's online privacy.

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 9, 2023

A Data Privacy Impact Assessment, or DPIA , is a formal assessment of the privacy risks of your data processing activities. The purpose of conducting a DPIA is to identify and assess the potential impact of these risks on individuals’ rights and freedoms from your proposed processing operations.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We risk letting companies get away with real misconduct because we incorrectly believed in conspiracy theories. More importantly, we need to be able to trust companies to honestly and clearly explain what they are doing with our data. On a personal level we risk losing out on useful tools.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 7, 2021

–( BUSINESS WIRE )– DTEX Systems , the Workforce Cyber Intelligence & Security Company , today announced it will exclusively sponsor the upcoming 2021 Insider Risk Management Solutions Forum alongside the SANS Institute. How to partner with legal and HR teams to protect employees and data. Splunk Inc.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 19, 2024

It mitigates the risk of a spouse, roommate, or anyone on a public computer spying on your browsing habits. Arising in the Northern District of California, the lawsuit accused Google of continuing to “track, collect, and identify [users’] browsing data in real time” even when they had opened a new Incognito window.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

The data allegedly originated from big data sources of the two most popular mobile network operators in China. Another threat actor in February 2021 offered website and application crawler data collection services on a Chinese-language cybercrime marketplace.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 21, 2023

These compromised accounts pose a serious risk to businesses, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, which has experienced the highest concentration of ChatGPT credentials for sale. This includes data from browsers, such as saved credentials, browsing history, and cookies, as well as information from instant messengers and emails.

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