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DEEP TECH NEWS: Respecting individual rights by using ‘privacy preserving aggregate statistics’

The Last Watchdog

However, over the past 20 years the practice of analyzing user data hasn’t advanced much beyond serving the business models of these tech giants. However, this intensive ingestion of personal data points — in the absence of reasonable oversight — has triggered consumer anxiety , and rightly so.

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NY Charges First American Financial for Massive Data Leak

Krebs on Security

According to a filing (PDF) by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS), the weakness that exposed the documents was first introduced during an application software update in May 2014 and went undetected for years. The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser.

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Ireland: Large-scale inquiries progress as DPC budget and staff numbers ramp up

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Primary areas of focus for the DPC in 2021 included the safeguarding of children’s data protection rights, progressing ongoing large-scale inquires and prioritising responding to complaints which have raised issues of substance, with a data subject centric approach to resolution. Our analysis of the WhatsApp decision can be read here.

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Infosys McCamish Systems data breach impacted over 6 million people

Security Affairs

Infosys McCamish Systems (IMS) revealed that the 2023 data breach following the LockBit ransomware attack impacted 6 million individuals. IMS specializes in providing business process outsourcing (BPO) and information technology (IT) services specifically tailored for the insurance and financial services industries.

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The largest Russian bank Sberbank hit by a massive DDoS attack

Security Affairs

Sberbank , the Russian banking and financial services giant, announced that it was recently hit by a record-breaking distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack that reached 1 million RPS. We provide further analysis of this new Rapid Reset technique and discuss the evolution of Layer 7 attacks in a companion blog.”

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 6 – 12 November 2023

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data included shoppers’ names, email addresses, phone numbers, countries of residence and membership numbers. The information mostly related to court proceedings.