SecureWorld News

MAY 4, 2021

Three years ago, on May 25, 2018, the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) went into effect. Many of you may remember having your inboxes inundated with Privacy Policy updates and requests for consent (or at a minimum, acknowledgment of the updates). It does diverge, and take somewhat of a U.S. HIPAA, GLBA, etc.).

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Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2021

There have been incidents in recent years where third parties have had data breaches with catastrophic results. An example of this can be traced back to June 2019, when an unauthorized user gained access to Quest Diagnostic’s sensitive data through a billing vendor by the name of the American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA).

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Centraleyes

JANUARY 15, 2024

“New Jersey has long been a leader in data privacy,” stated Brandon Pugh, CIPP/US, CIPM, R-Street Institute Policy Director for Cybersecurity and Emerging Threats. He served as a legislative counsel to the New Jersey Assembly’s minority office from 2019-2021. ” What Does the NJ Privacy Bill Cover?

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Security Boulevard

JULY 22, 2023

Before downloading First launch and set up Features Privacy Security Other The GOOD The BAD Final thoughts Overview Here's Waterfox at a glance. By default, Waterfox still does not have the opt-out telemetry ("Firefox Data Collection and Use") in its settings, signaling this has been removed in the source code - which is a good thing.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 26, 2021

New York appears to be poised to make 2021 the year of data privacy for the Empire State. As part of the 2021 State of the State address, Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a comprehensive law that "will provide New Yorkers with transparency and control over their personal data and provide new privacy protections.".

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The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 7, 2021

A digital twin is a virtual duplicate of a physical entity or a process — created by extrapolating data collected from live settings. As data collection and computer modeling have advanced apace, so have the use-cases for digital twin technology. NTT Research is in the thick of this budding revolution.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 15, 2024

” Hunt’s analysis didn’t say how many unique SSNs were included in the leaked data. But according to researchers at Atlas Data Privacy Corp. The data exposed included email addresses, hashed passwords, first and last names, and phone numbers. In 2019, malicious hackers stole data on more than 1.5

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SC Magazine

MARCH 19, 2021

Among them, the discovery that the app was not end-to-end encrypted as advertised, and that between 2018 and 2019, a “ZoomOpener” webserver module was installed on Macs that bypassed Apple’s security. Within months of shutdowns, a string of security controversies emerged. Those challenges and others were met by quick response.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 28, 2021

Bitglass secured Series D funding of $70 million in August 2019 bringing its total venture capital funding to $150 million. Maintaining regulatory compliance is an essential part of data privacy and should be a key focus for all enterprise organizations. Gartner also named Perimeter 81 on their Cool Vendor list in 2019.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 23, 2024

But a new lawsuit in a likely constitutional battle over a New Jersey privacy law shows that anyone can now access this capability, thanks to a proliferation of commercial services that hoover up the digital exhaust emitted by widely-used mobile apps and websites. Delaware-based Atlas Data Privacy Corp.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2022

Excessive data collection. Carr cited several incidents as evidence that TikTok has been dodgy about its data collection practices. ” The Senate and House committee members, cybersecurity researchers, privacy, and civil rights groups have flagged this as a concern. In China, it is known as Douyin.

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