Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2018
Users Surprised By Metadata Collection, But Facebook Says It Always Asked Facebook is facing a new controversy after some users say they've found records of phone calls and text messages in their personal files, but claim they never granted the social networking site permission to collect the data.
Imperial Violet
MARCH 26, 2018
Introduction. Predictions of, and calls for, the end of passwords have been ringing through the press for many years now. The first instance of this that Google can find is from Bill Gates in 2004 , although I suspect it wasn’t the first. None the less, the experience of most people is that passwords remain a central, albeit frustrating, feature of their online lives.
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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
MARCH 29, 2018
The year was 1994 and I had the fortunate opportunity to stumble upon a company – Cygnus Support – that was “selling free software.” I remember telling my mom that I was Vice President of Sales & Marketing of a company that was selling free software. After a very long pause, she replied, “Is your resume up to date?”. Cygnus Support sold support contracts and custom consulting projects for GNU development tools (gcc, g++, gdb) to companies looking to accelerate their time-to-market in the emb
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 27, 2018
What's happening at the US Army's new cyber branch headquarters marks a change for Fort Gordon. Hell, it might be changing warfare itself—all through a computer screen.
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Data Breach Today
MARCH 27, 2018
Security Researcher Discovers Apparent Breach at Medical Practice A medical practice's misconfigured database server that allegedly exposed information about thousands of patients plus staff serves as another reminder about the importance of safeguarding sensitive data from exposure on the internet.
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Bill Schmarzo - Dell EMC
MARCH 28, 2018
“Survival, in the cool economics of biology, means simply the persistence of one’s own genes in the generations to follow.” — Lewis Thomas. A recent article in The Economist titled “ The Year of the Incumbent ” postulates that 2018 is the year that the incumbents “get back into the game” by stealing the momentum from technology startups to reclaim their spots atop the market valuation charts.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 27, 2018
For years, Facebook has left a privacy setting on its site that addresses a problem that no longer exists.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 30, 2018
Protecting Critical Endpoints Is Paramount for Your Business With the explosion of laptops, IoT, tablets, smartphones and other smart technologies, endpoints are the single largest group of devices inside your network today. Managing all of your assets and their software requires three foundational steps.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 24, 2018
Shahmir Sanni, a volunteer for Vote Leave, the official pro-Brexit EU referendum campaign, explains how a data company linked to Cambridge Analytica played a crucial role in the result, and voices his concerns that electoral spending rules were manipulated… and evidence apparently destroyed • Brexit insider claims Vote Leave team may have breached spending limits When I first met Shahmir Sanni last August, he was nervy, anxious, uncertain.
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Troy Hunt
MARCH 29, 2018
The penny first dropped for me just over 7 years ago to the day: The only secure password is the one you can't remember. In an era well before the birth of Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), I was doing a bunch of password analysis on data breaches and wouldn't you know it - people are terrible at creating passwords! Of course, we all know that but it's interesting to look back on that post all these years later and realise that unfortunately, nothing has really changed.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 27, 2018
Researchers point out serious gaps in the privacy promises of stealth cryptocoin Monero.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 29, 2018
5 Days After Outbreak, Email Works, But Don't Try Paying Parking Tickets Online Five days after a ransomware outbreak crypto-locked city systems, Atlanta has advised its 8,000 employees that they can once again boot their PCs and printers. But information security experts warn that the city's infrastructure still appears to have easily exploitable misconfigurations.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 29, 2018
Defence ministry praised SCL for training it gave to psychological warfare group, papers show SCL, Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, had access to secret UK information and was singled out for praise by the UK Ministry of Defence for the training it provided to a psychological operations warfare group, according to documents released by MPs. An endorsement from an official at the 15 UK Psychological Operations Group dated January 2012 concluded that they would “have no hesitation in inviting
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TAB OnRecord
MARCH 29, 2018
In a three-part blog post we are outlining the ways that modern RIM professionals are increasing the value they provide to the organization. In part one of our blost post we discussed how records managers are extending their reach beyond the filing and storage rooms. This allows them to apply their expertise in information architecture, [.] Read More.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 25, 2018
No matter how much mystique a hacker persona has, the individual or group behind it inevitably makes operations security errors sometimes.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 26, 2018
Insights on Vulnerability Management and Incident Response An effective endpoint security strategy can be as layered as you want it to be. But you'll have a strong foundation if you build off of these four key steps.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 29, 2018
Users complain of phone and text data collected by the company despite never having agreed to practice Facebook began logging the text messages and phone calls of its users before it explicitly notified them of its practice, contradicting the company’s earlier claims that “uploading this information has always been opt-in only”. In at least one previous version of the Messenger app, Facebook only told users that the setting would enable them to “send and receive SMS in Messenger”, and presented
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Schneier on Security
MARCH 29, 2018
In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, news articles and commentators have focused on what Facebook knows about us. A lot, it turns out. It collects data from our posts, our likes, our photos , things we type and delete without posting, and things we do while not on Facebook and even when we're offline. It buys data about us from others. And it can infer even more: our sexual orientation, political beliefs, relationship status, drug use, and other personality traits -- even if we didn't
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 30, 2018
Atlanta isn't the SamSam ransomware strain's first victim—and it won't be the last.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 29, 2018
WannaCry Reportedly Identified by Boeing Executive as the Culprit Boeing says that a malware outbreak affected a small number of systems but did not disrupt production. An executive has reportedly identified the malware as being WannaCry ransomware and called for "all hands on deck" to respond to the incident.
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 29, 2018
Sensing opportunity – and GDPR – the Silicon Valley company launches major data protection push across devices Apple is launching a major privacy push, with software updates across all its devices to introduce new data privacy information immediately, with an updated website offering new privacy management tools to follow in May. Thursday’s updates (macOS 10.13.4, iOS11.3 and tvOS 11.3) are prompted by the enormous new European data protection regulation GDPR, and have been in the works since at
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AIIM
MARCH 26, 2018
This is the ninth post in a series on privacy by Andrew Pery. You might also be interested in: Three Critical Steps for GDPR Compliance. Mitigate Data Privacy and Security Risks with Machine Learning. The Privacy and Security Dichotomy. GDPR and Cross Border Data Flows between the EU and the US: Current State of the Law. Privacy by Design: The Intersection of Law and Technology.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 29, 2018
The unfortunately named MuslimCrypt uses steganography to pass discreet messages through images online.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 29, 2018
But Agency Will Seek Public Input First Federal regulators are considering potential changes to HIPAA privacy rule and enforcement regulations, but aim to first engage the healthcare sector and public for input, says the nation's top HIPAA enforcer. So, what changes are being considered?
The Guardian Data Protection
MARCH 28, 2018
Corporation suggests changes are response to Cambridge Analytica scandal, with EU set to toughen data protection rules in May Facebook is launching a range of new tools in an effort to “put people in more control over their privacy” in the buildup to new EU regulations that tighten up data protection. The changes come after a troubling two weeks for the company, which is battling with the fallout of the Cambridge Analytica files.
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Dark Reading
MARCH 30, 2018
The first in a series of articles shining a spotlight on women who are quietly changing the game in cybersecurity.
WIRED Threat Level
MARCH 30, 2018
If Under Armour had protected all passwords equally, its 150-million-user MyFitnessPal breach wouldn’t have been nearly as bad.
Data Breach Today
MARCH 30, 2018
150 Million Accounts Exposed; Could Phishing Campaign Be Coming? Under Armour says an unauthorized intruder gained access to information for the accounts of 150 million users of its MyFitnessPal mobile app and website. Learn why some fear the breach could lead to a massive phishing campaign.
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