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Data Privacy Day: Know your rights, and the right tools to stay private

Malwarebytes

Not all data privacy rights are the same. There’s the flimsy, the firm, the enforceable, and the antiquated, and, unfortunately, much of what determines the quality of your own data privacy rights is little more than your home address. This one is easy—use a private search engine. Just user choice.

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Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango. The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) announced earlier this year that they have expanded the Data Privacy Day campaign into Data Privacy Week , a full week-long initiative. And when a breach does happen, then our personal data is the main target.

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ROUNDTABLE: Huge Capital One breach shows too little is being done to preserve data privacy

The Last Watchdog

Authorities charged the 33-year-old former Amazon software engineer with masterminding the hack. Related: Hackers direct botnets to manipulate business logic Thompson is accused of pilfering sensitive data for 100 million US and 6 million Canadian bank patrons.

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Gambling firms are secretly sharing your data with Facebook 

Malwarebytes

In one browsing session, the reporter encountered ads from 49 different brands, including from betting companies which were not involved in the data collection and had been using Meta Pixel within the rules. Only grant them permission to access things they absolutely need.

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Sprint Exposed Customer Support Site to Web

Krebs on Security

leaked internal customer support data to the Internet, mobile provider Sprint has addressed a mix-up in which posts to a private customer support community were exposed to the Web. A message Microsoft sent to customers affected by their recent leak of customer support data.

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Top 9 Trends In Cybersecurity Careers for 2025

eSecurity Planet

It is generalized and entry-level, but it demonstrates a core level of competency that can be a building block of almost any career in cybersecurity, whether in administration, engineering, or development. It’s obviously a step to penetration testing, but it’s also helpful for architect, engineer, and analyst jobs.

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News alert: NCA’s Data Privacy Week webinars highlight data protection for consumers, businesses

The Last Watchdog

22, 2024 – Today, the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) , announced the program for its third annual Data Privacy Week campaign, which will take place from January 22nd to January 27th. While you can’t control every bit of collected data, it’s crucial to assert your right to data privacy.