Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 24, 2022

Category News, Privacy Risk Level. As a Data Privacy Week Champion , and as part of our commitment to the link between cybersecurity and privacy, we wanted to share some best practices from the National Cybersecurity Alliance about how to protect your privacy online. MFA has been found to block 99.9%

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 28, 2021

For many organizations, spending so much time collecting data is not conducive to innovation and growth. Automating tasks such as data collection and log and asset management can make security operations more efficient by freeing up skilled employees to work on high-level tasks that require a human touch. Data privacy.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Why Is Data Privacy Important? If you have never been affected by a scam or issue such as identity theft, then you may not yet fully comprehend the important role that data privacy plays. Data privacy refers to keeping the information that we discussed in the previous section safe and confidential.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For many organizations, spending so much time collecting data is not conducive to innovation and growth. Automating tasks such as data collection and log and asset management can make security operations more efficient by freeing up skilled employees to work on high-level tasks that require a human touch. Data privacy.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Only 27% of employed respondents use privacy tools and settings to safeguard workplace data when using AI. This imbalance between personal and professional data protection underscores the need for stronger workplace policies and more awareness around data privacy at work.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Healthcare-specific compliance frameworks like HIPAA require healthcare organizations to manage digital data so that it aligns with the newer data privacy laws, like the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA). Data’s Lifetime Impact.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

AUGUST 2, 2021

Users must be better protected from the outset, and the only way to ensure that is to impose significant restrictions on data collection and usage by companies seeking to monetize or use it to their asymmetric benefit in any way. social engineer a mobile provider employee to facilitate a SIM swap).

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 22, 2024

The regulation didn't just introduce new rules—it upended the entire approach to data privacy. Designed to safeguard the personal data of EU citizens, it introduced a paradigm shift towards a privacy-first approach. Digital enterprises found themselves compelled to adapt and navigate a new standard of data handling.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 6, 2022

AI is already used by security tools to detect unusual behavior , and Fortinet expects cybercriminals to use deep fakes and AI to mimic human activities to enhance social engineering attacks and bypass secure forms of authentication such as voiceprints or facial recognition.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Consumer Expectations Privacy Rights and Seamless Online Experiences An overwhelming 87% of consumers expect privacy rights from online interactions, with the most significant expectations being the right to be informed about data collection (55%) and the right to data erasure (53%).

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Identity IQ

JUNE 17, 2024

But identity verification isn’t foolproof, and advanced technologies such as blockchain and biometric authentication can help make it stronger. Blockchain and biometric authentication are technologies with strong potential to help improve identity verification. Lack of user control over data. What Is Biometric Authentication?

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Role-based access control (RBAC) and multi-factor authentication ( MFA ) regulate resource access. Encryption protects data both in transit and at rest. Data loss prevention ( DLP ) prevents unwanted data transfers. Data Control and Privacy Large amounts of data may be stored and analyzed in the cloud.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 2, 2018

1 – We need to be able to trust the data that comes from applications. Because machines increasingly talk to each other and exchange important data that they collect, strong mutual authentication and trust between these is critical. This is the first challenge, strong authentication requires trusted identities.

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McAfee

JANUARY 28, 2020

It’s Data Privacy Day and when it comes down to it, most of us don’t know exactly how many organizations have our data—let alone how it’s being collected or what it is being used for. This may give them the right, or at least enough rights in their own mind, to sell your data to data brokers.

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Centraleyes

JUNE 10, 2024

What is the Utah Consumer Privacy Act? The Utah Consumer Privacy Act, or UCPA , is a state-level data privacy law enacted in Utah, USA, aimed at providing residents with greater control over their personal data. Data Collection: Collect personal data from individuals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 12, 2018

Moreover, increasingly strict regulations such as the EU’s General Data Protection (GDPR) and the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), among others, have added the potential for significant fines to make data privacy and security a top priority for many businesses.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

“The biggest error was underestimating the power of one single account to undo their business and grant access to everyone’s data. At the very least, there should have been some form of multi-factor authentication or password vault to protect the [server] account. Separation of duties and the least access principle apply again.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Data privacy issues are a concern for businesses. On the user side: two-factor authentication and chat history Among the privacy settings available to the user, we were primarily interested in two questions: Does the service save user-chatbot conversations directly in the account?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2024

Privacy-oriented browsers also limit data collection and "phoning home" and telemetry activity on their backend (in this specific case, I am using "backend" to refer to the side where users don't necessarily directly interact with the browser), preserving your privacy as a user.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

As we know, a lot of this data is valuable to advertisers—this is what pundits focus on when they invoke the value of “oil” in discussing modern data collection—but this data is also valuable to an entirely separate group that has learned to abuse private information in novel and frightening ways: Cybercriminals.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Vendors’ attention is increasingly fragmented across various data-collecting and transactional platforms. As if things were not difficult enough, data collection in more states and countries is becoming stricter, with increased consumer protection laws leaving retailers applying tighter data privacy to their digital platforms.

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Centraleyes

MAY 23, 2024

Organizations should first ensure that the business collects and handles data correctly and then ensure that its data policies clearly communicate the purpose and proper use of the organization’s data. Financial, healthcare and government organizations are now subject to more stringent data privacy requirements.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 20, 2024

Data Privacy – Individuals should be protected from abusive data practices via built-in protections and have agency about how personal data is used. The best way to achieve this is through encryption and the safeguarding of the associated encryption keys.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

AUGUST 19, 2024

Data Privacy – Individuals should be protected from abusive data practices via built-in protections and have agency about how personal data is used. The best way to achieve this is through encryption and the safeguarding of the associated encryption keys.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 9, 2025

A robust 75% said they opt out of data collection, as possible, and 23% have gone a step further, using a data removal service to help clean up any personal information that is easily found online. Individual action The dire privacy concerns shared by many respondents have, for the most part, not resulted in privacy nihilism.

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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 breach at National Public Data may not be the worst data breach ever. there are 272 million unique SSNs in the entire records set.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 19, 2025

While insurers benefit from regulatory oversight like the banking sector, persistent friction points like opaque claims processes and intrusive data collection eroded goodwill. However, adoption of passwordless authentication grew modestly, with 75% of consumers prioritizing it in 2025 (vs. 72% in 2024). 72% in 2024).

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

You have to show to me that you're using multi factor authentication that you're doing vulnerability scanning and mitigation that you're harming your niche. VAMOSI: That’s on the data collection side. There are also benefits to the end user as well, such as increased privacy. This is a federal data privacy law.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 19, 2025

While insurers benefit from regulatory oversight like the banking sector, persistent friction points like opaque claims processes and intrusive data collection eroded goodwill. However, adoption of passwordless authentication grew modestly, with 75% of consumers prioritizing it in 2025 (vs. 72% in 2024). 72% in 2024).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the wake of a leaked draft of the decision, Federal legislators introduced a new, targeted data privacy bill to protect reproductive health data. Immediately following the decision, countless individuals dropped their current period-tracking apps in search for another app that would promise to better protect their data.

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