Tag: data protection

June 22, 2021

In a non-binding opinion, the two bodies called for a “general ban” on the practice that would include “recognition of faces, gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or behavioural signals, in any context”. Such practices “interfere with fundamental […]

June 10, 2021

Data Privacy is an area of data protection that deals with the proper handling of information, focusing on compliance with data protection regulations. How data should be collected, stored, managed, and shared with any third parties—are the main concerns of […]

May 24, 2021

The research involved the analysis of 23 Android applications and revealed issues related to real-time databases, cloud storage keys, and push notifications. The exposed data, which pertains to more than 100 million Android users, includes chat messages, emails, passwords, location […]

May 20, 2021

Data is constantly being tracked, stored and processed right under our noses, and it is quite frightening to know just how much data a company might have on you. They may not have your deepest darkest secrets (or maybe they […]

May 19, 2021

We all have at least part of our data in the cloud. Most of us still have servers located locally or perhaps in a local datacenter or in redundant regions throughout the world. Too often the processes that we used […]

April 16, 2021

“If you want to go quickly, go alone, but if you want to go far, go together.” This African proverb opens the Sophos 2021 Threat Report, and in view of recent cybersecurity events, its meaning is very important when it […]

April 15, 2021

The amount of data being collected by app developers has become a hot topic in recent months. Apple recently announced plans to force developers to declare how much personal information is collected by their apps sparking a fierce debate. Virtually […]

March 19, 2021

Inadequate data protection has emerged as one of the biggest challenges for organizations as they move to a digital-first workplace, according to a new survey. Conducted by backup specialists Veeam, the survey covers over 3000 IT decision makers of large […]

March 5, 2021

On March 2, Virginia’s Democratic Governor Ralph Northam signed into law the nation’s second major piece of state legislation that governs consumer data privacy and protection. Virginia’s Consumer Data Protection Act (CDPA) follows the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), which […]

February 26, 2021

Contact tracing applications have been created to help authorities automate the process of identifying those who have been in close contact with infected individuals. Using a newly developed tool called COVIDGuardian, which was designed for both static and dynamic program […]

February 10, 2021

Organizations are increasingly creating zero trust policies to augment their digital security postures. According to Infosecurity Magazine, 15% of organizations say they implemented a zero trust policy by the end of 2019. An additional 59% of participants revealed their intention […]

February 8, 2021

What is COPPA? The COPPA law, summarized The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, or COPPA, is a U.S. law that aims to protect the privacy and personally identifying information of children under the age of 13 who use online services. […]

February 5, 2021

Protecting personally identifiable information (PII) is one of the key aspects of a security expert’s job. What does personally identifiable information include? Social Security numbers, birth dates and places, financial accounts and more can give threat actors a foothold to […]

February 4, 2021

There is a saying in sociopolitical circles: “politics is downstream from culture.” Using that same line of thinking, poses a question: Is information security downstream from data privacy? In order to tell the difference between security and privacy and how […]

February 4, 2021

Popular chat apps sometimes use link previews as a convenient shortcut. Link previews are pop-up boxes you might see on a chat app or other social media platform when you share a URL. Link previews summarize the contents of the […]

February 2, 2021

At the heart of the incident, SAO says, was Accellion software used for file transfers. Hackers exploited a security flaw in the file sharing service and gained access to restricted files. Called FTA (File Transfer Application), Accellion’s service in mid-December […]

January 29, 2021

Almost three years after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force and one year after CCPA came into effect, many employees and business managers still use the terms data protection and data security interchangeably. While they share some […]

January 28, 2021

The ongoing global pandemic forced businesses around the world to accelerate their digital transformation efforts including moving their workloads to the cloud, and in the process, offload their security risks to the cloud providers. However, the shared responsibility model of […]

January 25, 2021

On September 26, 2020, researchers discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch server exposing more than 323,277 Cook County court related records containing highly sensitive personal data. Cook County, Illinois, is the second most populous county in the U.S., with a population in […]

January 14, 2021

The preliminary opinion is part of a long-running legal battle between Facebook and Belgium’s data protection authority over the company’s use of cookies to track the behavior of internet users, even those who weren’t members of the social network. The […]