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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us.

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Learning from Near Misses

Adam Shostack

Second, last year marked 25 years of calls for an "NTSB for infosec." Mandatory reporting and investigations would result better data collection. Unfortunately, we're still not learning as much as we could. There are structural reasons for that, primarily fear of lawsuits. We've spent the last year asking what else we might do.

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Hackers Could Cause ‘Fake Earthquakes’ by Exploiting Vulnerable Seismic Equipment, Researchers Warn

Hot for Security

Seismic monitoring devices linked to the internet are vulnerable to cyberattacks that could disrupt data collection and processing, according to Michael Samios of the National Observatory of Athens and his fellow colleagues who put together a new study published in Seismological Research Letters.

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Top VAPT Testing Companies

Security Boulevard

Introduction By reducing information risks and vulnerabilities, a process called information security, also referred to as infosec, protects electronic data. Data collection, organization, processing, and deletion are all included in the definition of data management. InfoSec […].

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The Rise of Data Sovereignty and a Privacy Era

SecureWorld News

Data detection and response: Monitor incremental and evolving data usage and storage location and enable InfoSec & Privacy teams to enact appropriate permission and access controls changes effectively and efficiently. Information Security & Privacy are inextricably intertwined only when the data is about people.

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Happy 13th Birthday, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

I seem to be doing most of that activity now on Mastodon , which appears to have absorbed most of the infosec refugees from Twitter, and in any case is proving to be a far more useful, civil and constructive place to post such things. For a variety of reasons, I will no longer be sharing these updates on Twitter.

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Unleashing the Power of a Security Data Lake

SecureWorld News

The data collected from various sources is then analyzed using various tools. Main features of SDL There are five key features that SDL should have: The key component of SDL is the automation of data collection and parsing. Viewing this data manually is unrealistic. Automation of adding context for security logs.