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CISA Releases Emergency Directive on Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote Protocol

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released Emergency Directive (ED) 20-04 addressing a critical vulnerability— CVE-2020-1472—affecting Microsoft Windows Netlogon Remote…

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Brexit ad blitz data firm paid by Vote Leave broke privacy laws, watchdogs find – TechCrunch

A joint investigation by watchdogs in Canada and British Columbia has found that Cambridge Analytica-linked data firm, Aggregate IQ, broke privacy…

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A 10-point plan to reboot the data industrial complex for the common good – TechCrunch

A posthumous manifesto by Giovanni Buttarelli, who until his death this summer was Europe’s chief data protection regulator, seeks to…

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Legislators from ten parliaments put the squeeze on Facebook – TechCrunch

The third meeting of the International Grand Committee on Disinformation and ‘Fake News’, a multi-nation body comprised of global legislators…

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5 Places Where Hackers Are Stealthily Stealing Your Data In 2019

Skyrocketing data breaches bring incalculable losses to organizations and can cost cybersecurity executives their jobs. Here we examine the top…

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Cybersecurity Horror Stories Don’t Have to Keep You Up at Night

Iconic filmmaker John Carpenter once said this about horror flicks: “There are two different stories in horror: internal and external. In…

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Are You Afraid of the Unintentional Insider Threat?

Malicious insiders exist among us, and sometimes, we hire them. Like a demon in disguise, they trick us into trusting…

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Unsecured Adobe Server Exposes Data for 7.5 Million Creative Cloud Users

The U.S. multinational computer software company Adobe has suffered a serious security breach earlier this month that exposed user records’…

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EU-US Privacy Shield passes third Commission ‘health check’ — but litigation looms – TechCrunch

The third annual review of the EU-US Privacy Shield data transfer mechanism has once again been nodded through by Europe’s…

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EU contracts with Microsoft raising “serious” data concerns, says watchdog – TechCrunch

Europe’s chief data protection watchdog has raised concerns over contractual arrangements between Microsoft and the European Union institutions which are…