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The UN called Wednesday for a moratorium on artificial intelligence systems like facial recognition technology that threaten human rights until "guardrails" are in place against violations. [Read More]
Hackers stole the personal data of around 1.4 million people who took Covid-19 tests in the Paris region in the middle of 2020, hospital officials in the French capital disclosed on Wednesday. [Read More]
In addition to one-on-one phone call encryption, Zoom announces Verified Identity and a Bring Your Own Key (BYOK) offering. [Read More]
The patch comes exactly one week after the Redmond, Wash. software giant acknowledged the CVE-2021-40444 security defect and confirmed the existence of in-the-wild exploitation via booby-trapped Microsoft Office documents. [Read More]
China's new data privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), will provide solid protection for its people’s personal information nationally, internationally the law can be used as a weapon. [Read More]
Tenable makes its priciest acquisition to date and expands its product portfolio with capabilities to detect security problems in code before they become operational security risks. [Read More]
Google introduced Private Compute Services for Android, a new suite of services designed to improve privacy in the Android operating system. [Read More]
Secure email provider ProtonMail has been strongly criticized for providing the IP address of a customer to Swiss authorities, ultimately leading to the arrest of a climate activist in France. But simply blaming ProtonMail misses the important lessons of this case. [Read More]
The U.S. government's CISA and OMB are seeking the public’s opinion on draft zero trust strategic and technical documentation. [Read More]
Microsoft patches a vulnerability in Azure Container Instances that could allow access to other customers’ information. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Privacy
While obscurity is an offensive tool for attackers, it also represents a defensive measure for organizations. Let’s consider the benefits of concealing network infrastructure and activity from the outside world to reduce the enterprise attack surface.
There is a dawning realization of the potential danger posed by algorithms, written by humans to steer other humans.
Everywhere you go, you cast a shadow of data that, taken together, reveals who you are, what you like to do, your habits, your addictions.
For companies based in the U.S. with customers and files in many different countries, reconciling conflicting practices and laws is likely to remain a serious headache for years to come.
Individuals and security professionals should have a 360 mindset and know the actions needed to take in the pursuit of data protection and the preservation of privacy.
In the coming years the data protection and privacy landscape will change dramatically, improving the experience for us as individuals but potentially making things more complex for businesses.
You should be asking yourself what your digital vapor trail says about you and its potential impact on your own reputation and the trust others have in you.
In the United States, it is consumers’ responsibility to opt out of sharing their information with the services they join—and figuring out how to do so.
There have been so many high-profile breaches that a person’s entire life could be laid out, triangulated and, ultimately, faked by someone with the wrong set of intentions.
Ashley Arbuckle interviews Michelle Dennedy, Cisco’s Chief Privacy Officer (CPO), to discuss how data privacy has a major impact on business.
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- Frustrated Researcher Discloses Three Unpatched iOS Vulnerabilities
- UK-Based Threat Detection Firm SenseOn Raises $20 Million
- Controversial Web Host Epik Confirms Customer Data Exposed in Breach
- VMware Confirms In-the-Wild Exploitation of vCenter Server Vulnerability
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- Chrome 94 Update Patches Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerability
- Threat Actor Targets Indian Government With Commercial RATs
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- EU Denounces Alleged Russian Hacking Ahead of German Vote
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