Europe
Biden Admin. Adds ‘Mercenary Spyware’ Firms to Ban List
European cousins Intellexa and Cytrox essentially banned by Commerce Dept. — Predator/ALIEN not welcome in U.S ...
GDPR FAIL: US Firm ‘Profiles Half the World’ — it’s Max Schrems Again
NYOB accuses TeleSign, Proximus and BICS of misusing phone users’ private data. Reputation scoring = privacy violation? ...
Facebook Fined $1.3B — Zuckerberg Furious in GDPR Fight
GDPR Move for Mark’s Money: No legal way to move Europeans’ data to the US since 2015. Cloud industry better take note ...
Operation GhostShell: Novel RAT Targets Global Aerospace and Telecoms Firms
In July 2021, the Cybereason Nocturnus and Incident Response Teams responded to Operation GhostShell, a highly-targeted cyber espionage campaign targeting the Aerospace and Telecommunications industries mainly in the Middle East, with additional ...
From a Submarine to Cybersecurity: Tripwire Expands in Continental Europe
In the last few years, Tripwire has increased its portfolio to include industries that were previously overlooked in the cybersecurity space. Industrial organizations are the newest targets for some of the most malicious ...
Dunhammer: NSA Blamed for Danish Spying on Euro Pols
In a damning leaked report, Danish authorities reveal that the NSA spies on friendly foreign governments ...
3 data flow mapping challenges to comply with the GDPR
As part of your GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) compliance project, your organisation must understand what personal data it processes. To help you do this, you must create a data flow map. A data flow ...
Privacy Mindset: Europe vs. United States
In episode 146 for November 9th 2020: My conversation with Kelly Finnerty, Director of Brand and Content for Startpage.com on the differences in privacy mindset between Europe and the United States. ** ...
Europol: “The Hidden Internet Is No Longer Hidden, and Your Anonymous Activity is Not Anonymous”
Europol this week has announced the arrest of 179 vendors of illicit goods on the dark web, in a coordinated operation known as DisrupTor. According to the press release, operation DisrupTor follows ...
Today’s Court Ruling on Data Privacy in EU
I guess you heard the ruling by the Court of Justice for the European Union on cross-border transfer. I think it is important to understand our position on this as outlined here: ...
