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Friday Five: 5/24 Edition
Google's password faux pas, how real-time bidding may violate the GDPR, and tips on mitigating trade theft risk are all covered in this week's Friday Five.
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U.S. Charges WikiLeaks' Julian Assange With Violating Espionage Act
The United States Justice Department has unveiled charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 new counts on the alleged violation of the Espionage Act by publishing classified information through WikiLeaks website. If convicted for all counts, Assange could face a maximum sentence of 175 years in U.S. prison for his "alleged role in one of the largest compromises of classified -
NYDFS Tasks New Cybersecurity Division to Enforce Cybersecurity Regulation
With a new cybersecurity team dedicated to enforcing the department’s regulations under its wing, the New York Department of Financial Services (NYDFS) will grow even more vigilant of violations.
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5 Cybersecurity Tools Every Business Needs to Know
Cybersecurity experts all echo the same thing – cyber attacks are going to get more rampant, and they will continue to pose severe threats against all technology users. Businesses, in particular, have become prime targets for cybercriminals due to the nature of data and information they process and store. 2018 saw a slew of data breaches targeting large enterprises that resulted in the theft -
Tor Browser for Android — First Official App Released On Play Store
Wohooo! Great news for privacy-focused users. Tor Browser, the most popular privacy-focused browser, for Android is finally out of beta, and the first stable version has now arrived on Google Play Store for anyone to download. The Tor Project announced Tuesday the first official stable release of its ultra-secure internet browser for Android devices, Tor Browser 8.5—which you can now -
Hacker Disclosed 3 Unpatched Microsoft Zero-Day Exploits In Less Than 24 Hours
Less than 24 hours after publicly disclosing an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10, the anonymous hacker going by online alias "SandboxEscaper" has now dropped new exploits for two more unpatched Microsoft zero-day vulnerabilities. The two new zero-day vulnerabilities affect Microsoft's Windows Error Reporting service and Internet Explorer 11. Just yesterday, while releasing a -
Lithuanian DPA Hopes First GDPR Fine Is A Wake Up Call
It took a year but Lithuania's data protection authority issued its first fine last week to a fintech company for breaching three provisions of the GDPR.
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Google Stored G Suite Users' Passwords in Plain-Text for 14 Years
After Facebook and Twitter, Google becomes the latest technology giant to have accidentally stored its users' passwords unprotected in plaintext on its servers—meaning any Google employee who has access to the servers could have read them. In a blog post published Tuesday, Google revealed that its G Suite platform mistakenly stored unhashed passwords of some of its enterprise users on -
PoC Exploit For Unpatched Windows 10 Zero-Day Flaw Published Online
An anonymous hacker with an online alias "SandboxEscaper" today released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a new zero-day vulnerability affecting Windows 10 operating system—that's his/her 5th publicly disclosed Windows zero-day exploit [1, 2, 3] in less than a year. Published on GitHub, the new Windows 10 zero-day vulnerability is a privilege escalation issue that could allow a local -
Half A Million DPOs in Place One Year Post-GDPR
One year after GDPR was first implemented, an estimated 500,000 organizations have registered data protection officers in place.
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Core Elastic Stack Security Features Now Available For Free Users As Well
Elastic, the company behind the most widely used enterprise search engine ElasticSearch and the Elastic Stack, today announced that it has decided to make core security features of the Elastic Stack free and accessible to all users. ELK Stack or Elastic Stack is a collection of three powerful open source projects—Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana—that many large and small companies are -
WEBINAR: How to Get Enterprise Cyber Security for your Mid-Sized Organization
High-quality cybersecurity posture is typically regarded as the exclusive domain of the large and heavy resourced enterprises – those who can afford a multi-product security stack and a skilled security team to operate it. This implies a grave risk to all organizations who are not part of this group, since the modern threat landscape applies to all, regardless of size and vertical. What is
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