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Malaysia introduces watershed amendments to Personal Data Protection Act 2010

Data Protection Report

The PDP Bill, which had been under review by the Malaysian Government for some years, introduces significant changes to Malaysia’s Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (the Malaysian PDPA ), aimed at aligning the Malaysian approach more closely with international data protection regimes.

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FBI and CISA joint alert blames Russia’s Energetic Bear APT for US government networks hack

Security Affairs

The US government declared that Russia-linked APT group Energetic Bear has breached US government networks and exfiltrated data. has been active since at least 2010 most of the victims of the group are organizations in the energy and industrial sectors. ” reads the advisory. ” reads the advisory.

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Iranian government blocked Wikipedia Farsi due Coronavirus outbreak

Security Affairs

The restrictions were implemented for some 24 hours and the government removed them in the afternoon of March 3rd, 2010. Iran us facing a growing crisis due to the Coronavirus outbreak, the government will temporarily release 54,000 people from prisons as officials struggle to contain the rapid spread of the epidemic.

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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

Krebs on Security

On March 14, KrebsOnSecurity published a story showing that Onerep’s Belarusian CEO and founder Dimitiri Shelest launched dozens of people-search services since 2010, including a still-active data broker called Nuwber that sells background reports on people. government. Shelest denied ever being associated with Spamit.

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The Unsexy Threat to Election Security

Krebs on Security

Much has been written about the need to further secure our elections, from ensuring the integrity of voting machines to combating fake news. California has a civil grand jury system designed to serve as an independent oversight of local government functions, and each county impanels jurors to perform this service annually.

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is free

Security Affairs

He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He published thousands of classified diplomatic and military documents on WikiLeaks in 2010. Julian Assange is free after five years in Belmarsh prison, the WikiLeaks founder has been released in the U.K.

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BORN Ontario data breach impacted 3.4 million newborns and pregnancy care patients

Security Affairs

The BORN funded by the government of Ontario disclosed a data breach that impacts some 3.4 BORN Ontario hired cybersecurity experts to mitigate the threat, secure its infrastructure, and investigate the scope of the incident. Nuance launched an investigation into the incident with the help of cyber security experts and a law firm.