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Here Comes the US GDPR: APRA, the American Privacy Rights Act
Richi Jennings | | American Data Privacy and Protection Act, APRA (American Privacy Rights Act), Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Consumer privacy rights, customer privacy, EU GDPR, GDPR, GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), gdpr legislation, Maria Cantwell, Privacy, SB Blogwatch
Enter the lobbyists: A draft federal privacy act has Washington DC buzzing. But it’s just a bill—and it’s a long, long journey before it becomes a law ...
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FCC: Phone Network Bugs Must Be Fixed — But are SS7/Diameter Beyond Repair?
Richi Jennings | | Big Telecom, carrier, Carriers, Diameter, digital telecom, fcc, FCC Failures, FCC Follies, FCC privacy rules, Federal Communications Commission, Federal Government, Location, location access risks, location data, Location data privacy, location history, location intelligence, location privacy, location sharing location tracking, location tracking, mobile carrier, mobile carrier vulnerability, Mobile carriers, Mobile Location Tracking, Mobile Tracking, Phone Carrier, RADIUS, roaming, Ron Wyden, SB Blogwatch, Sen. Ron Wyden, Smartphone Location Tracking, ss7, telco, Telecom, Telecom Cybersecurity, Telecom Industry, Telecom Industry Vulnerabilities, telecommunications, Telecommunications Security, telephone, telephones, U.S. Federal Communications Commission, wireless carrier
Fast enough for government work: The Federal Communications Commission is finally minded to do something about decades-old vulnerabilities ...
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Ivanti CEO Promises Stronger Security After a Year of Flaws
Ivanti CEO Jeff Abbott, in an open letter and a video, outlined the steps the embattled company is taking to improve its security ...
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Google Chrome Enlists Emerging DBSC Standard to Fight Cookie Theft
Google is prototyping a new technology in Chrome that is designed to thwart the growing trend among cybercriminals of stealing browser session cookies, which enables hackers to bypass multifunction authentication (MFA) protections ...
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Biden Review Board Gives Microsoft a Big, Fat Raspberry
Richi Jennings | | Active Directory, Authentication, azure, Azure Active Directory, Azure AD, Azure security, cisa, CISA.gov, CSRB, Cyber Safety Review Board, Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Administration, Entra ID, Exchange, Microsoft, Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Azure Active Directory, Microsoft Azure Security, Outlook.com, SB Blogwatch, Storm-0558
Storm-0558 forecast: Last year’s Chinese hack of federal agencies’ email is still a mystery, and “should never have occurred,” says CISA ...
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NIST Proposes Public-Private Group to Help with NVD Backlog
An embattled National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), hobbled by budget cuts, is looking for more help from both inside and outside the government. NIST is trying to manage a growing ...
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Loop DoS Attacks: 300K Systems At Risk Of Being Exploited
Wajahat Raja | | Application-layer protocols, Cequence Security, CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security, Cybersecurity News, cybersecurity threats, Denial of Service (DoS) attacks, DoS attack detection, DoS attack response, IP address spoofing, Loop DoS attacks, Network Security, UDP vulnerabilities
In a digital landscape where cybersecurity threats constantly evolve, a recent discovery by researchers at the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security has unveiled a new form of attack known as “Loop ...
Chrome’s Incognito Mode Isn’t as Private as You Think — but Google’s Not Sorry
Richi Jennings | | adtech, Advertising, Advertising and AdTech, adverts, breach of privacy, browser, browser abuse, Chrome, cookie, Cookie Consent, cookieconsent, cookies, customer privacy, Data Privacy, FLEDGE, FLoC, GOOG, google, Google Ad, Google AdSense, Google advertising, Google Chrome, Google Chrome Security, Incognito, Incognito Mode, Link History, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookies, web cookie
Short term gain for long term pain? Class action attorney David Boies asked for $5,000 per user, but got nothing—except some assurances Google will delete data it no longer needs ...
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Sophos: Backups are in Ransomware Groups’ Crosshairs
Enterprises that ignore their data backups, in contemplating ransomware, do so at their own peril, according to cybersecurity firm Sophos. Protecting backups will significantly reduce the harm to a company hit by ...
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The Cybersecurity Industry Starts Picking Through Malicious XZ Utils Code
The open source community, federal agencies and cybersecurity researchers are busy trying to get their hands around the security near-miss of the backdoor found in versions of the popular XZ Utils data ...
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