Australian bill to create back door into encrypted apps in ‘advanced stages’
The Australian government is pushing ahead with controversial legislation it says will create “back doors” into encrypted communication services – […]
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Protecting Your Privacy Beyond Facebook
Safeguarding information about what you do online goes far beyond trying to lower your profile on one internet service. Legally, you […]
User Privacy Isn’t Solely a Facebook Issue
During Congressional hearings about Facebook’s data practices in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica fiasco, Mark Zuckerberg drew an important […]
Why ISO 27001 is integral to data protection compliance
With the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)’s compliance deadline looming, any organisation that processes EU residents’ data will likely […]
Five things we learned from Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook hearing
The CEO’s privacy is as vulnerable as ours, and the social network faces a regulation battle. His data was sold to […]
Is Software More Vulnerable Today?
This note from ENISA provides an overview on the reasons for the growing number of disclosed vulnerabilities and the impact […]
Ransomware reigns supreme in 2018, as phishing attacks continue to trick employees
Ransomware was the cause of 39% of malware-related data breaches, more than double that of last year, according to Verizon’s […]
How Mark Zuckerberg Blamed Facebook’s Problems On Openness
Facebook’s first reactions to the Cambridge Analytical headlines looked very different from the now contrite promises Mark Zuckerberg made to […]
How to check whether Facebook shared your data with Cambridge Analytica
Facebook has started the process of notifying the approximately 87 million users whose data was harvested by the election consultancy […]
Cyber Resiliency Considerations for the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems
This is the initial public draft of NIST’s newest guideline that provides a flexible systems engineering-based framework to help organizations […]
Four cents to deanonymize: Companies reverse hashed email addresses
Your email address is an excellent identifier for tracking you across devices, websites and apps. Even if you clear cookies, […]
Facebook Says Data on Most of Its 2 Billion Users Is Vulnerable
Facebook Inc. said data on most of its 2 billion users could have been accessed improperly, giving fresh evidence of […]