Preparing for the EU Radio Equipment Directive security requirements

TL;DR UK & EU IoT vendors have more security regulation coming in Applies to all wireless devices Comes into force 1st August 2025 It may be absorbed into the Cyber Resilience Act From 1st August 2025, mandatory cybersecurity requirements come into effect under the EU’s Radio Equipment Directive...

Small business owners, secure your web shop

An online shop is more than just another way to sell your products. It comes with a responsibility to keep the web shop secure. Cybercriminals are looking to steal your customers’ credit card details, their personal data, and even your revenue. And it’s not as if using a platform that is used by...

India Proposes Digital Data Rules with Tough Penalties and Cybersecurity Requirements

The Indian government has published a draft version of the Digital Personal Data Protection DPDP Rules for public consultation. "Data fiduciaries must provide clear and accessible information about how personal data is processed, enabling informed consent," India's Press Information Bureau PIB sa...

New U.S. DoJ Rule Halts Bulk Data Transfers to Adversarial Nations to Protect Privacy

The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ has issued a final rule carrying out Executive Order EO 14117, which prevents mass transfer of citizens' personal data to countries of concern such as China including Hong Kong and Macau, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Russia, and Venezuela. "This final rule is a...

Brazil Halts Meta's AI Data Processing Amid Privacy Concerns

Brazil's data protection authority, Autoridade Nacional de Proteção de Dados ANPD, has temporarily banned Meta from processing users' personal data to train the company's artificial intelligence AI algorithms. The ANPD said it found "evidence of processing of personal data based on inadequate leg...

When things go wrong: A digital sharing warning for couples

“When things go wrong” is a troubling prospect for most couples to face, but the internet—and the way that romantic partners engage both with and across it—could require that this worst-case scenario become more of a best practice. In new research that Malwarebytes will release this month, romant...

Financial institutions ordered to notify customers after a breach, have an incident response plan

The Securities and Exchange Commission SEC has announced rules around breaches for certain financial institutions—registered broker-dealers, investment companies, investment advisers, and transfer agents— that require them to have written incident response policies and procedures that can be used...

Data brokers admit they’re selling information on precise location, kids, and reproductive healthcare

Information newly made available under California law has shed light on data broker practices, including exactly what categories of information they trade in. Any business that meets the definition of data broker must register with the California Privacy Protection Agency CPPA annually. The CPPA...

How to Be More Anonymous Online

Being fully anonymous is next to impossible—but you can significantly limit what the internet knows about you by sticking to a few basic rules...

How to Protect Your Privacy Online

Decoding the Complexities of Digital Personhood and Its Private Aspects: Elemental Groundwork As we stride through this tech-propelled age, concerns related to internet-bound privacy have risen as pressing hurdles for all cyber inhabitants around the planet. Considering the ever-broadening spectr...

India Passes New Digital Personal Data Protection Bill (DPDPB), Putting Users' Privacy First

The Indian President Droupadi Murmu on Friday granted assent to the Digital Personal Data Protection Bill DPDPB after it was unanimously passed by both houses of the parliament last week, marking a significant step towards securing people's information. "The Bill provides for the processing of...

Indian Government Publishes Draft of Digital Personal Data Protection Bill 2022

The Indian government on Friday released a draft version of the much-awaited data protection regulation, making it the fourth such effort since it was first proposed in July 2018. The Digital Personal Data Protection Bill, 2022, as it's called, aims to secure personal data, while also seeking...

What are Dating Apps Doing to Protect Their Users?

A very public affair When asked about the pitfalls and problems behind using dating apps, users cite data security as one of the most worrying elements of online dating. Since the Ashley Madison breach in July 2015, online dating sites have repeatedly been under media scrutiny for the poor...

VPN vs. DNS Security

When you are trying to get another layer of cyber protection that would not require a lot of resources, you are most likely choosing between a VPN service & a DNS Security solution. Let's discuss both. VPN Explained VPN stands for Virtual Private Networks and basically hides your IP and provides ...

Nearly 2,000 Signal users affected by Twilio phishing attack

New findings following the Twilio phishing attack revealed that Signal, one of its high-value clients and a popular encrypted messaging platform, was particularly affected. 1,900 of its users had their phone numbers and SMS registration codes exposed. However, Signal reassured users that the...

Ban Pegasus spyware, urges European Union Data Protection Supervisor

The European Data Protection Supervisor EDPS has urged the EU to ban the development and deployment of spyware with the capabilities of Pegasus to protect fundamental rights and freedoms. What is Pegasus? On July 18, a group of 17 newspaper and media organizations—aided by Amnesty International’s...

Why I’m Proud to Protect Billions of People Worldwide

I decided to pursue a career in IT after working as a support engineer for internal employees as part of my very first job. It immediately opened my eyes to something that I found as interesting as I did shocking: Lots of people don’t understand information security — and what’s more, they don’t...

How can you protect your personal, sensitive data online?

By Owais Sultan If you are reading this, thinking about your personal data or even secrets, you may have bigger problems than you can solve. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: How can you protect your personal, sensitive data online?...

Teaching Cybersecurity to Children

A new draft of an Australian educational curriculum proposes teaching children as young as five cybersecurity: The proposed curriculum aims to teach five-year-old children -- an age at which Australian kids first attend school -- not to share information such as date of birth or full names with...

Why do companies fail to stop breaches despite soaring IT security investment?

Let's first take a look back at 2020! Adding to the list of difficulties that surfaced last year, 2020 was also grim for personal data protection, as it has marked a new record number of leaked credentials and PI data. A whopping 20 billion records were stolen in a single year, increasing 66% fro...