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In this farewell letter, CyberPrivacy founder Marilia Wyatt discusses why the publication matters to her, the joy of how readers connect with the work, and what is next.
Read More Marilia Wyatt: A Farewell Letter to ReadersDestructive 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 SayA study from scientists at the University of Haifa, Israel found an increase in participants’ levels of cortisol, the stress hormone when they saw simulated cyberattacks on computers and mobile phones.
Read More Political Scientists Examine Cyberattacks Implications On Human PsycheBy Daniel Solove George Washington University Law School This book chapter, originally written in 2006 and updated in 2016, provides a brief history of information privacy law, with a primary focus on United States privacy law. It discusses the development of the common law torts, Fourth Amendment law, the constitutional right to information privacy, numerous […]
Read More A Brief History of Information Privacy LawThe top five impediments to cybersecurity framework implementation were reported as follows: 1) Lack of trained staff; 2) Lack of necessary tools to automate controls; 3) Lack of budget; 4) Lack of appropriate tools to audit continuous effectiveness of controls; and 5)
Lack of integration among tools
This research explores the history of DDos attacks, which were previously designed to inflict punitive damage on the victim but have since grown into sophisticated censorship tools.
Read More The Evolution of Politically Motivated Distributed Denial of Service Attacks
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