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A Guide to Navigating the UK DPA’s Updated Guidance on Subject Access Requests (SARs) for Employers

| | Data Privacy Automation, data protection act, DPA, employees, SAR, subject access requests, uk
The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the United Kingdom’s data protection authority, released new guidance on May 24, 2023, to assist organizations and employers in responding to subject access requests (SARs) from current ...
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TikTok Abused Kids’ Data — UK Fines it $16 Million

TikTok Abused Kids’ Data — UK Fines it $16 Million

| | Australia, Bytedance, children, Children and smartphones, five eyes, information commissioner's office, SB Blogwatch, TikTok, uk, Won’t somebody think of the children?
$8.50 per child: UK regulator punishes TikTok at 5.5% of revenue. Says app illegally tracked children ...
Security Boulevard

UK Runs Fake DDoS-for-Hire Sites

| | cybercrime, Denial of Service, uk, Uncategorized
Brian Krebs is reporting that the UK’s National Crime Agency is setting up fake DDoS-for-hire sites as part of a sting operation: The NCA says all of its fake so-called “booter” or ...
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Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites

Brits Slap Wrists of DDoS Kids, via NCA’s Fake Booter Sites

| | booter, booter services, booters and stressers, crime, ddos, National Crime Agency, National Cyber Crime Unit, NCA, Operation Power Off, Operation PowerOFF, SB Blogwatch, U.K. National Crime Agency, uk
UK National Crime Agency nips it in the bud: Aims to scare straight naughty DDoS kiddies ...
Security Boulevard
The LastPass Attack Gets Worse, What is Gamification, Signal's Encryption Standoff

The LastPass Attack Gets Worse, What is Gamification, Signal’s Encryption Standoff

| | Attack, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Data Privacy, Digital Privacy, end-to-end encryption, Episodes, gamification, Information Security, Infosec, lastpass, legislation, password manager, passwords, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, security, Security Awareness, signal, technology, training, uk, United Kingdom, Weekly Edition
Popular password manager LastPass suffered a second attack that lasted for over two months. Now new and disturbing information is being released about the attack. Scott discusses the benefits and challenges of ...
The Shared Security Show
NSA Wants To Help you Lock Down MS Windows in PowerShell

NSA Wants To Help you Lock Down MS Windows in PowerShell

| | Best command to secure Windows machines? FORMAT C:, cisa, gchq, GCSB, NCSC, New Zealand, nsa, powershell, SB Blogwatch, uk, Windows
A new cheatsheet from four infosec agencies tells us how to use PowerShell for good, rather than let scrotes misuse it to “live off the land.” ...
Security Boulevard

5 Things to know about the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

| | Featured Articles, government, NCSC, uk
#1 The history of the National Cyber Security Centre The UK’s first cybersecurity strategy was launched in 2009 and outlined that whatever the shape of the cybersecurity mission, it made no sense ...
The State of Security
Is TikTok Listening to You, Apple Warns Activists, UK Government Website Shows Porn

Is TikTok Listening to You, Apple Warns Activists, UK Government Website Shows Porn

| | Activists, Apple, Cybersecurity, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Information Security, Infosec, Podcast, Privacy, security, technology, TikTok, uk, UK Government, Weekly Edition
Is the TikTok app listening to you and playing videos based on your conversations? Apple takes the unique step of warning certain activists that their phones may be targeted by attackers, and ...
The Shared Security Show
Zero-Click Exploit, Leaked Guntrader Firearms Data, 60 Million Fitness Tracking Records Exposed

iMessage Zero-Click Exploit, Leaked Guntrader Firearms Data, 60 Million Fitness Tracking Records Exposed

| | Apple, Citizen Lab, Cybersecurity, Data breach, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Firearms, Fitness, Fitness Tracker, Guntrader, Infosec, ios, NSO Group, Podcast, Privacy, security, technology, uk, Wearable, Weekly Edition, Zero-Click Exploit
The latest on the iMessage Zero-Click exploit that affects Apple iOS, MacOS and WatchOS devices (update your Apple devices now!), the names and home addresses of 111,000 British firearm owners have been ...
The Shared Security Show
Think of the Children: Anti-E2EE Ads Ahoy

Think of the Children: Anti-E2EE Ads Ahoy

| | Banning math doesn’t stop criminals, E2EE, end-to-end encryption, facebook, Priti Patel, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, uk
Another Five Eyes government is trying to stop end-to-end encryption—this time, it’s the UK ...
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