Dutch DPA Fines Netflix €4.75 Million for GDPR Violations Over Data Transparency

The Dutch Data Protection Authority DPA on Wednesday fined video on-demand streaming service Netflix €4.75 million $4.93 million for not giving consumers enough information about how it used their data between 2018 and 2020. An investigation launched by the DPA in 2019 found that the tech giant d...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: OpenImageIO-2.4.8.1-1.fc37

OpenImageIO is a library for reading and writing images, and a bunch of relat ed classes, utilities, and applications. Main features include: - Extremely simple but powerful ImageInput and ImageOutput APIs for reading a nd writing 2D images that is format agnostic. - Format plugins for TIFF,...

How to build a secure foundation for identity and access

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Christina Richmond, a...

Simplify privacy protection with Microsoft Priva Subject Rights Requests

The General Data Protection Regulation GDPR came into effect in 2018 and set a new standard for the level of control individuals in the European Union had on the personal data they shared online. Since then, the number of privacy regulations around the world has flourished and impacted the privac...

Facebook Has No Idea What Data It Has

This is from a court deposition: Facebooks stonewalling has been revealing on its own, providing variations on the same theme: It has amassed so much data on so many billions of people and organized it so confusingly that full transparency is impossible on a technical level. In the March 2022...

Twitter Fined $150 Million for Misusing Users' Data for Advertising Without Consent

Twitter, which is in the process of being acquired by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has agreed to pay $150 million to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission FTC to settle allegations that it abused non-public information collected for security purposes to serve targeted ads. In addition to the monetary penalty...

Product Overview - Cynet Centralized Log Management

For most organizations today, the logs produced by their security tools and environments provide a mixed bag. On the one hand, they can be a trove of valuable data on security breaches, vulnerabilities, attack patterns, and general security insights. On the other, organizations don't have the rig...

Turning collaboration and customer engagement up with a strong identity approach

In these challenging times, it’s even more apparent that modern companies are managing a blended workforce that encompasses not only their full-time staff and customers but also their contractors, consultants, subsidiaries, suppliers, partners, and soon-to-be customers. Balancing friction-less...

California's Domino Effect on U.S. Privacy Regulation

LAS VEGAS – The California Consumer Privacy Act CCPA, which goes into effect in January 2020, will implement strict requirements for companies to create more transparency about how user data is being used and disseminated. Microsoft’s acknowledgement this week that it will extend CCPA to all of i...

Use This Privacy Tool to View and Clear Your 'Off-Facebook Activity' Data

Well, here we have great news for Facebook users, which is otherwise terrible for marketers and publishers whose businesses rely on Facebook advertisement for re-targeted conversations. Following the Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook has taken several privacy measures in the past one year wit...

Apple CEO Tim Cook Says Company Dedicated to Protecting Users' Privacy

While much of the tech community is still swooning over the iPhone 6, Apple Pay and Apple Watch, the company’s top executive is spending a lot of time and energy trying to reassure customers that Apple is doing everything it can to protect their privacy and the security of their data. Apple CEO T...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID11104: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 13, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 35292 First Published: 2014 August 13 18:17 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 RuleID11104 may contain the following files: Name |...

FTC Pushes "Do Not Track" Option For Web Browsers

The Federal Trade Commission introduced a framework today that aims to address privacy issues raised by consumers that directly affects how our activity is tracked online. The agency went on to advocate the creation of a “Do Not Track” mechanism that could help shape the future of browser securit...