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In this farewell letter, CyberPrivacy founder Marilia Wyatt discusses why the blog matters, the joy of how readers connected with her work, and what is next for her.
Read More Marilia Wyatt: A Farewell Letter to ReadersCompanies looking to gauge how EU’s General Data Protection Regulation will be interpreted should monitor regulators’ decisions around fines and which privacy violations are considered the highest severity, experts say.
Read More GDPR Enforcement Actions Signal Regulators Focus, Experts SayDestructive attacks are rising from nation-states as companies are caught in geopolitical crossfires, according to a new survey. These attacks are intended to paralyze business operations by manipulating and destroying data and IT assets and denying incident response teams access to data they need to investigate incidents.
Read More Geopolitical Conflict Is Fueling the Increase in Destructive Attacks, Report SaysThe CyberPrivacy Brief: The security incident disclosed Wednesday by social media network Reddit verifies how attackers can intercept text messages or SMS-based two-factor authentication that delivers unique code to compromise accounts. Impacted user data includes email addresses and a 2007 database backup that had old salted and hashed passwords. Attackers also had read access to storage systems, including Reddit source […]
Read More Reddit Urges Users To Switch To Token-Based AuthenticationAI tool aims to help users understand complex privacy policies on the internet, and help organizations improve their privacy policies.
Read More AI Tool Makes It Easier for Users to Grasp Privacy PoliciesThousands of Android apps targeted explicitly at kids under 13 may be violating U.S. privacy law; 40% of apps analyzed do not use TLS in at least one transmission containing identifiers or other sensitive information.
Read More Thousands of Apps for Kids Insecurely Transmit Data, Report SaysA bipartisan group of senators is urging President Trump to complete a national cyber deterrence strategy outlining how the nation will respond to cyberattacks from a variety of malicious actors seeking to inflict harm or damage. A strong cyber doctrine by the federal government is necessary and critical for “our nation’s survival in the digital age,” the senators noted. […]
Read More Creating Cyber Deterrence Strategy is Key to U.S Survival, Lawmakers SayI spoke with Chris Roberts about hacker stereotypes, how the community is serving the public good, and what he sees as the change needed to reflect their accurate portrayal.
Read More Breaking Hacker StereotypesOhio state legislation seeks to provide businesses with protection from lawsuits in the event of a breach under certain circumstances.
Read More Ohio Lawmakers Propose Legislation To Provide Businesses Data Breach Defense In Court“Offense has overwhelmed defense [leading] to a sense of helplessness . . . If we accept defense is futile because offense always wins, then we all stop trying as hard. We focus on cleanup instead of prevention.” – Jeff Moss (aka The Dark Tangent), Founder of DEF CON and the Black Hat conferences By Marilia […]
Read More New York Cyber Task Force Recommends Strategies For ‘Building a Defensible Cyberspace’