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Data loss prevention strategies for long-term remote teams

February 5, 2021 9:07 am

Advertisement Before the recent pandemic, many executives began appreciating the risks and opportunities associated with cybersecurity. A 2019 survey on cybersecurity priorities from Optiv Security found that 96% of CISOs are taking “a more strategic approach to cybersecurity,” and many were even willing to slow business development to account for cybersecurity-related risks. This was great...

The state of the dark web: Insights from the underground

January 21, 2021 10:56 am

Advertisement Lately, dark web actors have one more worry: getting caught by law enforcement. Tracking dark web illegal activities has been a cat-and-mouse game for authorities, but in the end, they often catch their adversaries and seize the dodgy money. On the night of the 2020 presidential election, for example, US government officials managed to...

The future history of medical device cybersecurity

January 13, 2021 8:12 am

Advertisement In 1555, Nostradamus published his famous Les Prophéties containing obfuscated prophecies for the world to come. Some believe that one of these predictions pertains to the year 2020 and it reads, in part: “The false trumpet concealing madness / will cause Byzantium to change its laws.” Yeah… I have no idea what that means...

Google Workspace Gets Client-Side Encryption

Issued by: Security Week

Google’s collaboration and productivity solution was already encrypting data, both when at rest and in transit, but the new feature is meant to provide additional control and ease of mind over the security of data. In addition to increasing the confidentiality of data, the feature...

Reality Winner, NSA Contractor in Leak Case, Out of Prison

Issued by: Security Week

Reality Winner, 29, has been moved to home confinement and remains in the custody of the federal Bureau of Prisons, the person said. The person could not discuss the matter publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity. She pleaded guilty in 2018...

G7 Tells Russia to Crack Down on Ransomware, Other Cybercrime

Issued by: Security Week

In a communiqué issued after the conclusion of the summit, G7 countries vowed to work together to “further a common understanding of how existing international law applies to cyberspace” and collaborate to “urgently address the escalating shared threat from criminal ransomware networks.” The G7 called on all...

Google Offers UK Watchdog Role in Browser Cookie Phase-Out

Issued by: Security Week

The U.K. competition watchdog has been investigating Google’s proposals to remove so-called third-party cookies over concerns they would undermine digital ad competition and entrench the company’s market power. To address the concerns, Google on Friday offered a set of commitments including giving the Competition and...

Cybersecurity Training Company Immersive Labs Raises $75 Million

Issued by: Security Week

Founded in 2017, by a former employee of the UK’s GCHQ intelligence agency, the company has offices in Bristol and Boston, helping both private and government organizations improve the cybersecurity skills of their employees. The new funding round, Immersive Labs says, will help it accelerate...

Canada Privacy Watchdog Slams Police Use of Facial Recognition Tool

Issued by: Security Week

In a report to lawmakers, privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said Clearview AI's collection of images without consent and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP)'s use of that database were illegal. The software startup has stockpiled more than three billion images grabbed from popular social media platforms...

Cyber Security Minute

Google Workspace Gets Client-Side Encryption

G7 Tells Russia to Crack Down on Ransomware, Other Cybercrime

Canada Privacy Watchdog Slams Police Use of Facial Recognition Tool

Google Patches Chrome Zero-Day Used by Commercial Exploit Company

Intel Releases 29 Advisories to Describe 73 Vulnerabilities Affecting Its Products

WAGO Controller Flaws Can Allow Hackers to Disrupt Industrial Processes

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