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Canada Uses Civil Anti-Spam Law in Bid to Fine Malware Purveyors

Krebs on Security

In March 2019, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) — Canada’s equivalent of the U.S. Section 8 involves the surreptitious installation of computer programs on computers or networks including malware and spyware. In this regard, CASL offers a welcome alternative. ”

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired.

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EU Regulatory Data Protection: Many pieces to the regulatory framework puzzle

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

the legal basis for direct marketing communications. the legal basis for direct marketing communications. Certain obligations have a more general scope of application, whereas others are limited to providers of electronic communications networks and services. the provision of data sharing services.

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Scraping the TOR for rare contents

Security Affairs

First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic.

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Microsoft sued North Korea-linked Thallium group

Security Affairs

The group is charges of violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act; federal trademark infringement, dilution, and false designation of origin; cyber squatting; com mon law trespass to chattels; unjust enrichment; conversion; intentional interference with contracts. 27 in the U.S.

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Cybersecurity Risks of 5G – And How to Control Them

eSecurity Planet

Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems. Edge computing is the relatively new focus on traffic as close as possible to the client device and user. Also read: Best Third-Party Risk Management (TPRM) Tools. Supply Chains.

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APT34: Glimpse project

Security Affairs

On April 19 2019 researchers at Chronicle, a security company owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, have examined the leaked tools , exfiltrated the past week on a Telegram channel, and confirmed that they are indeed the same ones used by the OilRig attackers. At this stage we might appreciate two communication ways.