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January 15, 2021

Data Protection / Endpoint Security / Fraud & Identity Theft / Incident Response / Malware / Management & Strategy / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Phishing / Virus & Malware / Virus & Threats

Facebook Takes Legal Action Against Data Scrapers

Facebook on Thursday announced that it took legal action against two individuals for scraping data from its website. In a lawsuit filed in Portugal,...

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January 15, 2021

Data Protection / Management & Strategy / NEWS & INDUSTRY

NSA Publishes Guidance for Enterprises on Adoption of Encrypted DNS

The National Security Agency (NSA) on Wednesday published guidance for businesses on the adoption of an encrypted domain name system (DNS) protocol, specifically DNS...

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January 14, 2021

Application Security / Data Protection / Email Security / Endpoint Security / Malware / Mobile Security / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Tracking & Law Enforcement / Virus & Malware / Vulnerabilities / Wireless Security

Report: TikTok Harvested MAC Addresses By Exploiting Android Loophole

The ongoing controversies surrounding TikTok hit a new gear on Thursday with a bombshell report accusing the Chinese company of spying on millions of...

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January 14, 2021

Compliance / Data Protection / Management & Strategy / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Privacy / Privacy & Compliance

EU Court Opinion Leaves Facebook More Exposed Over Privacy

Any EU country can take legal action against companies like Facebook over cross-border violations of data privacy rules, not just the main regulator in...

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January 13, 2021

Cybercrime / Data Protection / Incident Response / Management & Strategy / NEWS & INDUSTRY

Hackers Publish COVID-19 Vaccine Data Stolen From EU Medicines Agency

Hackers have started leaking documents related to COVID-19 medicine and vaccines that were stolen from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in early December 2020....

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January 13, 2021

Data Protection / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Privacy

Watchdog Raises Concerns About Census Bureau’s IT Security

A watchdog agency for the U.S. Census Bureau says that proper information-technology security safeguards weren’t in place leading up to the start of the...

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January 12, 2021

Data Protection / Endpoint Security / Identity & Access / Malware / Mobile Security / Network Security / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Virus & Malware / Vulnerabilities

Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux Goes Live

Microsoft on Monday announced that Microsoft Defender for Endpoint on Linux now provides endpoint detection and response (EDR) capabilities to all users. Initially available...

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January 12, 2021

Application Security / Data Protection / Disaster Recovery / Email Security / Endpoint Security / Identity & Access / Incident Response / Malware / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Virus & Malware / Vulnerabilities

Intel Packs Ransomware Detection Directly Into vPro Platform

At the virtual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on Monday, chipmaker Intel announced CPU-based ransomware detection capabilities has been fitted directly into the Intel vPro...

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January 11, 2021

Data Protection / Incident Response / NEWS & INDUSTRY / Privacy / Privacy & Compliance / Vulnerabilities

United Nations Environment Programme Exposed 100,000 Employee Records

Security researchers with Sakura Samurai identified exposed GitHub credentials on a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) subdomain, which allowed them to access a trove...

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January 8, 2021

Data Protection / Identity & Access / NEWS & INDUSTRY

Firefox Improves Privacy Protections With Encrypted Client Hello

Mozilla is strengthening the privacy protections in Firefox with the implementation of Encrypted Client Hello (ECH), an evolutionary step from Encrypted Server Name Indication...