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The European Union is active in passing cybersecurity legislation ostensibly for the European Union but with worldwide ramifications.
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Continue reading Proposed EU Cybersecurity Product Certification Scheme Has Global Effects
Some hacks are serendipitous events for skiddies who happen across a website with an easily exploitable common vulnerability. Others, especially the major breaches of major enterprises, are planned and executed with care. Such planning often leaves tra… Continue reading Dark Web Chatter Helpful in Predicting Real World Hacks, Firm Says
Failure to Modernize Legacy DoD Systems is Putting U.S. National Security in Jeopardy, Report Claims
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Continue reading Outdated DoD IT Jeopardizes National Security: Report
In June 2018, Ticketmaster UK warned that some of its customers — which it put at less than 5% of its global customer base — may have had their payment information accessed by an unknown third-party.
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Continue reading Ticketmaster Breach: Tip of the Iceberg in Major Ongoing Magecart Attacks
London, UK-based email archiving and security firm Mimecast has acquired Bethesda, Md-based security training company Ataata. Financial terms of the acquisition have not been disclosed
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Continue reading Email Security Firm Mimecast Buys Staff Training Startup Ataata
UK Financial Authorities’ Paper on Resilience Potentially Silos Continuity from Data Protection
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Continue reading UK Financial Authorities Publish Paper On Operational Resilience
Cryptocurrency theft and its use to launder other illegal activity is booming. This has prompted the evolution of a related industry that sits on the borderline of legality (barely legal in some jurisdictions, illegal in others): cryptocurrency money l… Continue reading CipherTrace Unveils Crypto-Currency Anti-Money Laundering Solution
On Monday July 2, Jackie Doyle-Price, the parliamentary under-secretary of state for health, delivered a written statement to the UK parliament. It explained that 150,000 NHS patients who had specifically opted out of the NHS patient data-sharing… Continue reading NHS Digital Erroneously Reveals Data of 150,000 Patients
Enveil’s New “ZeroReveal” Platform Enables Homomorphic Encryption to Secure Data in Use
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Continue reading Data Security Startup Enveil Unveils Homomorphic Encryption Platform
Security Researcher Vinny Troia has discovered another sensitive database exposed on the internet. This one uses Elasticsearch, which allows easy data searching over the internet. Elasticsearch offers security including authentication and role-based ac… Continue reading Massive Breach at Data Broker Exactis Exposes Millions of Americans