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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

This post is a deep dive on “ Megatraffer ,” a veteran Russian hacker who has practically cornered the underground market for malware focused code-signing certificates since 2015. 2016 sales thread on Exploit. One of Megatraffer’s ads on an English-language cybercrime forum. “Why do I need a certificate?”

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CNIL Unveils 2017 Inspection Program and 2016 Annual Activity Report

Hunton Privacy

On March 28, 2017, the French Data Protection Authority (“CNIL”) published its Annual Activity Report for 2016 (the “Report”) and released its annual inspection program for 2017. The CNIL estimates that the GDPR will lead to the appointment of a data protection officer in at least 80,000 to 100,000 organizations in France. smart TVs.

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How to protect healthcare and life-sciences data from a cyber attack pandemic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

According to analyst firm IDC , 93% of pharmaceutical companies and 72% of biotech companies already have business-critical applications in the cloud, including product lifecycle management, analytics, revenue management, and much more. Marcelo Delima | Senior Manager, Global Solutions Marketing. A pandemic of cyber attacks.

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Counting Down to the EU NIS2 Directive

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Evolving from NIS to NIS2 Initially adopted in 2016, the original Network and Information Security Directive (NIS) relied heavily on the discretion of individual member states and lacked accountability. Compliance Marcelo Delima | Senior Manager, Global Solutions Marketing More About This Author > Schema basic Site Studio - Banner

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Digging the recently leaked Chinese Communist Party database

Security Affairs

Further analysis allowed the experts to determine that the database also includes information of CCP members who worked at foreign consulates in Shanghai, as well as at the Chinese branches of different international banking, pharmaceutical, automotive and defense firms, universities, and research firms.

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EDPB’s Position on Clinical Trials Creates Friction with Other EU Legislation

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

A basic legal requirement that pharmaceutical and medical device companies conducting clinical trials must always respect when conducting a clinical trial is the obligation to obtain patients’ consent to their participation for clinical trials. 1] Regulation EU 2016/679. [2] 2] Directive 2001/20/EC. [3]

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

In December, 2016, the lights went out in Kyiv, Ukraine. So the reality is that there was a team of criminal hackers, and like all intrusions, this attack didn’t just start in December 2016; it began months before it was executed. Can criminal hackers shut down a city’s electrical grid? Well, nothing’s impossible.