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Celebrating Data Privacy Day – or is it Data Protection Day?

BH Consulting

These may include campaigns targeting the general public, educational projects for teachers and students, open doors at data protection agencies, and conferences. On 26 January 2009, the United States House of Representatives declared 28 January as National Data Privacy Day. Tom-ay-to/tom-ah-to….

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Why Data Privacy Day matters

Malwarebytes

Our Lock and Code special episode on Data Privacy Day, featuring guests from Mozilla, DuckDuckGo, and Electronic Frontier Foundation can be listened to here. Today, as Malwarebytes commemorates Data Privacy Day, so, too, do many others. Why does data privacy matter? Privacy is core to a safer Internet.

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Celebrate Data Privacy Day with SiteLock

SiteLock

With the Target data breach and its endless repercussions still on most people’s minds, next week’s Data Privacy Day (January 28th) is well-timed to pause and think about data privacy and what it means to your business and customers. Congress declared the very first National Data Privacy Day.

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IBM releases open-source toolkits implementing FHE to process data while encrypted

Security Affairs

IBM invented FHE in 2009, but only recently it is becoming practical thanks to algorithmic progresses. . “In This has revolutionized security and data privacy and how we outsource computation to untrusted clouds,” states IBM. The FHE toolkits are been released on GitHub for macOS and iOS.

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Homomorphic Encryption Makes Real-World Gains, Pushed by Google, IBM, Microsoft

eSecurity Planet

To counter this, some major IT vendors are pushing forward with a decades-old encryption idea that was first talked about in the late 1970s but not successfully demonstrated for the first time until 2009. FHE enables data to remain encrypted even as it is processed and analyzed, whether that’s in the cloud or in third-party environments.

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The Largest Cybersecurity Breach Exposing 10 Billion Passwords

ZoneAlarm

The RockYou2024 password leak has emerged as the largest known data breach in history, exposing approximately 10 billion passwords. Named after the infamous RockYou breach of 2009, this latest incident significantly surpasses its predecessor. In July 2024, a hacker using the alias “ObamaCare” uploaded the RockYou2024.txt

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Emergency Satellite Messaging, Stagnation in User Cybersecurity Habits

Security Boulevard

In the milestone 350th episode of the Shared Security Podcast, the hosts reflect on 15 years of podcasting, and the podcast’s evolution from its beginnings in 2009. They discuss the impact of a current hurricane on Florida, offering advice on using iPhone and Android satellite communication features during emergencies.