Facebook Woes Continue as FTC Opens Data Privacy Probe

The Federal Trade Commission on Monday announced it is launching an investigation into Facebook’s data privacy practices. The announcement is another kick to Facebook, which has been grappling with the fallout from a scandal where data from the social media platform leaked through a third-party...

Mapping the Journey to GDPR Compliance: Who’s got the wheel?

With so many different areas of the company involved in our journey to becoming compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation GDPR by May 25th, it was essential for us to have a strong program manager mapping our route. The GDPR enforces the idea that every company should to be aware of...

Experts Call Facebook’s Latest Controversy a Social Media ‘Breach Of Trust’

Privacy advocates are calling on all social media platforms to more responsibly handle and restrict improper access to data in the wake of Facebook’s latest controversy where it acknowledged users’ personal information had leaked through a third-party app. “People are shocked this happened, but I...

Facebook Data Privacy Policies Bashed By Critics After Cambridge Analytica Incident

Facebook is in hot water after acknowledging that a consulting group – that has worked on several high profile political campaigns, including that of President Donald Trump’s – used the social media company’s platform to harvest the data of 50 million users. The company last week said that in 201...

Our Journey to GDPR Compliance: Lessons learned on our way to May 25th

With the European Union’s EU General Data Protection Regulation GDPR date fast approaching, we have been working hard to make sure our already strong security culture and policies will align with the new regulation. As GDPR is a very broad law that includes people, process, and technology, workin...

Tuleap 9.17.99.189 - Blind SQL Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications =============================================================================== title: Tuleap SQL Injection case id: CM-2018-01 product: Tuleap version 9.17.99.189 vulnerability type: Blind SQL injection - time based severity: High found:...

The digital entropy of death: what happens to your online accounts when you die

Unless you're planning on having your mind jammed inside some sort of computer chip, eventually mortality will catch up and you're going to have to work out what you'll do with all of your online accounts. When it's time to shuffle off this mortal coil, you might, theoretically, be slightly annoy...

CVE-2017-1654

This CVE (CVE-2017-1654) affects IBM Spectrum Scale: affected versions include 4.1.1, 4.2.0–4.2.3 and 5.0.0, where a local unprivileged user could access information stored in dump/trace files. The IBM bulletins describe that dump contents, including user data, could be written to recovery logs o...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID31995: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on February 14, 2018

Medium Alert ID: 56824 First Published: 2018 February 14 18:06 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID31995 may contain the following files: Name |...

Turns out Equifax breach was way bigger than initially thought

By Carolina On July 29th Equifax, a consumer credit reporting agency in the United This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Turns out Equifax breach was way bigger than initially thought...

This Week in Security News: Magic Quadrants & Global Threats

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, Gartner released its Magic Quadrant Leaders, Data Privacy Day gave us a moment to reflect, and U.K. and U.S. governments alike acted to...

Data Privacy in the Age of IoT

On Data Privacy Day, January 28th, we should have all taken a few moments to think more carefully about safeguarding our personal data, staying safe online, and improving our privacy habits. Just what does that mean in the age of IoT — the Internet of Things? In previous years, cyber threats most...

January 29, 2018 – Morning Cyber Coffee Headlines – “Grammys” Edition

Good morning! Sit with Carbon Black this morning over a cup of coffee or tea and browse a few industry headlines to get the day started. We’ve got just enough information below to get you through that first cup…enjoy! January 29, 2018 - Headlines Carbon Black in the News: Four warnings for the...

Heat Map Released by Fitness Tracker Reveals Location of Secret Military Bases

Every one of us now has at least one internet-connected smart device, which makes this question even more prominent —how much does your smart device know about you? Over the weekend, the popular fitness tracking app Strava proudly published a "2017 heat map" showing activities from its users arou...

Data Privacy Day

January 28 is Data Privacy Day DPD, an annual international effort to promote the importance of data privacy. DPD is sponsored in the United States by the National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA with the theme, Respecting Privacy, Safeguarding Data, and Enabling Trust. The NCSA Stay Safe Online...

CVE-2018-2579

CVE-2018-2579 affects OpenJDK components (Java SE/OpenJDK/JRockit) across multiple platforms; connected sources document an issue with unsynchronized access to encryption key data in Libraries, enabling potential information disclosure under network access. Public advisories show affected package...

Cookies: Should I worry about them?

Starting off the new year, many of us are worried about cookies—how many we ate over the holidays and how we're going to avoid them in the break room, for example. With so much cybercrime and data theft swirling around like daily bomb cyclones, there's more than a few folks worried about the kind...

New Rules Announced for Border Inspection of Electronic Devices

The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol announced new restrictions on when agents can copy data from digital devices at border crossing points. Agents now need “reasonable suspicion” in advance of searches of phones, computers, tablets, cameras or any other digital device belonging to people entering ...

Spectre and Meltdown from a CNO Perspective

Longtime readers know that I have no problem with foreign countries replacing American vendors with local alternatives. For example, see Five Reasons I Want China Running Its Own Software. This is not a universal principle, but as an American I am fine with it. Putting my computer network...

Three Reasons Why GDPR Encourages Pseudonymization

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR is the European Union’s new data regulation designed to provide individuals with rights and protections over their personal data that is collected or created by businesses or government entities. It unifies data protection regulation across all member...