TrustedSec a featured commentator on Fox Business

Facebook’s ongoing struggle with maintaining user data privacy was the topic of discussion on a recent Fox Business segment, “The Business of Cybersecurity.” TrustedSec’s GRC Practice Lead Alex Hamerstone was asked to provide background and analysis on Facebook’s new privacy standards and dashboards.

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Webinar – GDPR: Chip Away at the Stone (April 11, 2018 at 1:00 PM EST)

GDPR: Chip Away at the Stone JOIN TRUSTEDSEC ON APRIL 11, 2018 AT 1:00 PM EST The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation [EU] 2016/679) has many organizations still seeking to become compliant. Unlike PCI, whose standards affect their own customers (thus, they were very lenient for the first 10 years), the European Union is…

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FBI strengthens crackdown on darknet drug dealing, Featuring Alex Hamerstone – FoxNews.com

The only place to buy illegal drugs used to be on street corners, or through a local dealer. Police and undercover agents would set up sting operations, or force buyers to turn in their local dealer. Now, the drug dealing business has moved online – prompting law enforcement officials to navigate the dark web to crack…

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Very high level of confidence’ Russia used Kaspersky software for devastating NSA leaks, Featuring David Kennedy – Yahoo Finance

Three months after U.S. officials asserted that Russian intelligence used popular antivirus company Kaspersky to steal U.S. classified information, there are indications that the alleged espionage is related to a public campaign of highly damaging NSA leaks by a mysterious group called the Shadow Brokers. “That’s a Russian intelligence operation,” a former senior intelligence official,…

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Local cybersecurity company warns of flaws in the phone, tablet, computer you’re using right now, Featuring Alex Hamerstone -News 5 Cleveland

There’s a good chance the phone, tablet or computer you use has a computer chip flaw that’s opening you up to hackers. The recent announcement of more than a billion devices being susceptible sent 5 On Your Side Investigators into action. We tracked down a company in our backyard designed to help stop the bad…

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Linus Torvalds Is Not Happy About Intel’s Meltdown and Spectre Mess, Featuring Alex Hamerstone – Gizmodo.com

Famed Linux developer Linus Torvalds has some pretty harsh words for Intel on the fiasco over Meltdown and Spectre, the massive security flaws in modern processors that predominantly affect Intel products. Meltdown and Spectre exploit an architectural flaw with the way processors handle speculative execution, a technique that most modern CPUs use to increase speed. Both classes of vulnerability…

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Meltdown & Spectre Fixes Arrive—But Don’t Solve Everything, Featuring Alex Hamerstone – Wired.com

This week, a pair of vulnerabilities broke basic security for practically all computers. That’s not an overstatement. Revelations about Meltdown and Spectre have wreaked digital havoc and left a critical mass of confusion in their wake. Not only are they terrifically complex vulnerabilities, the fixes that do exist have come in patchwork fashion. With most computing devices…

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