Capability-Based Multi-Tenant Access Management in Crowdsourced Drone Services

We propose a capability-based access control method that leverages OAuth 2.0 and Verifiable Credentials VCs to share resources in crowdsourced drone services. VCs securely encode claims about entities, offering flexibility. However, standardized protocols for VCs are lacking, limiting their...

6 insights from Microsoft’s 2024 state of multicloud risk report to evolve your security strategy

Multicloud computing has become the foundation for digital businesses, with 86% of organizations having already adopted a multicloud approach.1 However, for all its benefits around increased agility, flexibility, and choice, we also see unique challenges with multicloud—including the need to mana...

Data privacy law updates eyed by Singapore

In early 2019, Singapore’s data privacy regulators proposed that the country’s data privacy law could use two new updates—a data breach notification requirement and a right of data portability for the country’s residents. The proposed additions are commonplace in several data privacy laws around...

New Facebook Tool Let Users Transfer Their Photos and Videos to Google

Facebook has finally started implementing the open source data portability framework as the first phase of 'Data Transfer Project,' an initiative the company launched last year in collaboration with Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Twitter. Facebook today announced a new feature that will allow its...

ACCESS Act might improve data privacy through interoperability

Data privacy is back in Congressional lawmakers’ sights, as a new, legislative proposal focuses not on data collection, storage, and selling, but on the idea that Americans should be able to more easily pack up their user data and take it to a competing service—perhaps one that better respects...

SUSE SLES15 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2018:1938-1)

This update for java-180-openjdk to version 8u171 fixes the following issues: These security issues were fixed : - S8180881: Better packaging of deserialization - S8182362: Update CipherOutputStream Usage - S8183032: Upgrade to LittleCMS 2.9 - S8189123: More consistent classloading - S8189969,...

SUSE SLES12 Security Update : java-1_8_0-openjdk (SUSE-SU-2018:1690-2)

This update for java-180-openjdk to version 8u171 fixes the following issues : These security issues were fixed : S8180881: Better packaging of deserialization S8182362: Update CipherOutputStream Usage S8183032: Upgrade to LittleCMS 2.9 S8189123: More consistent classloading S8189969,...

Privacy Questions Raised as Tech Giants Join Forces on Data Portability

A veritable who’s who of tech giants from Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter, went public last week with a partnership on a standards initiative called the Data Transfer Project DTP, built to enable data portability between cloud platforms. But security researchers believe the project’s...

Google launches 'Data Transfer Project' to make it easier to switch services

A lot of new online services are cropping up every day, making our life a lot easier. But it is always harder for users to switch to another product or service, which they think is better because the process usually involves downloading everything from one service and then re-uploading it all aga...

Google launches 'Data Transfer Project' to make it easier to switch services

A lot of new online services are cropping up every day, making our life a lot easier. But it is always harder for users to switch to another product or service, which they think is better because the process usually involves downloading everything from one service and then re-uploading it all aga...

What Will GDPR’s Impact Be On U.S. Consumer Privacy?

Will General Data Protection Regulation rules that go in effect on Friday impact the privacy of U.S. citizens? It depends who you ask, but the odds-on-favorite answer is “not by much.” The Facebook Cambridge Analytica scandal in March led to a firehose of rebuke against social media platforms,...

EU to Propose New Data Breach, Privacy Regulations

The European Union EU is preparing to propose new rules that will require companies to disclose data breaches within 24 hours, according to reports. The new rules are aimed at protecting customers and reducing bureaucracy, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding explained in a speech at a conferen...