EFAIL Opens Up Encrypted Email to Prying Eyes
The flaws threaten to expose corporate communications in Outlook as well as the messages of at-risk users like political dissidents. READ MORE HERE…
Privacy
This Week in Security News: Zippy’s and Flynn
Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Hawaii-based restaurant Zippy’s suffered a POS data breach. In addition, Uber executive John Flynn argued that user expectations on data protection are rising, but consumers still aren’t…
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Phone Maker BLU Settles with FTC Over Unauthorized User Data Extraction
Florida-based phone maker BLU is facing an FTC complaint over allegations it shared detailed personal user data with a third-party firm that included full text messages, call logs and contact lists. Read More HERE…
What HIPAA and Other Compliance Teaches Us About the Reality of GDPR
with contributing author, William J. Malik, CISA | VP, Infrastructure Strategies The date for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance is just weeks away, yet many organizations, especially those outside Europe, remain unprepared. It turns out that the experiences from other privacy compliance regulations are less helpful than assumed, but the best lessons learned may be…
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PROTECTING YOUR PRIVACY – Part 2: How to Maximize Your Privacy on Social Media and in Your Browser
In the last post we highlighted the privacy risks associated with using popular social networking sites and browsers. You might not appreciate just how much of your personal data is being accessed by advertisers and other third parties via your social media accounts and internet browsing. Similarly, your privacy settings may have changed significantly since…
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Free Speech Advocates Blast Amazon Over Threats Against Signal
Secure-messaging firm Signal was told by Amazon not to use its AWS servers for domain-fronting, a technique used to enable communications in countries such as Egypt, Oman, Qatar and UAE where the service is banned. Read More HERE…