Your Personal Data Sold to US Intelligence Agencies
Richi Jennings | | 4th Amendment, Data Brokers, Director of National Intelligence, Fourth Amendment, Information Brokers, ODNI, Privacy, SB BlogwatchWhat Price 4th Amendment? Warrant not needed if info bought from brokers ... Read More
What a Mess: Barracuda Swaps Countless Appliances — Malware Can’t be Removed
Richi Jennings | | Barracuda, Barracuda Networks, email, email security, Email Security Gateway, ESG, SB BlogwatchESG FAIL: Patching alone won’t cut it ... Read More
Dark Web Threats Target Energy Industry as Cybercrime Tactics Shift
The energy industry is increasingly targeted by malicious actors and threat groups through activity on the dark web, according to a report from Searchlight Cyber, which detailed numerous instances of threat actors selling initial access to energy organizations around the world. These include targets in the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, France, Italy ... Read More
‘Predator’ — Nasty Android Spyware Revealed
Richi Jennings | | android spyware, Cisco Talos, Cytrox, Intellexa, iOS spyware, nation-state, SB Blogwatch, spyware, TalosIntellexa mercenary spyware chains five unpatched bugs—plus ‘Alien’ technology ... Read More
Dell Launches Project Fort Zero Service to Accelerate Zero-Trust IT Shift
Dell Technologies today launched a Project Fort Zero cybersecurity services initiative that promises to make it simpler for organizations to transition to zero-trust IT environments. The initiative is based on a reference architecture defined by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Announced at the Dell Technologies World conference, Dell will ... Read More
Facebook Fined $1.3B — Zuckerberg Furious in GDPR Fight
Richi Jennings | | Data Privacy, EEA, eu, EU GDPR, EU Privacy Shield, EU-US Privacy Shield, Europe, Europe Regulation, European Compliance, European Court of Human Rights, European Digital Rights, European Union, European Union (EU), facebook, Facebook data, facebook fine, GDPR, GDPR compliance, gdpr eu, GDPR fine, GDPR violations, Meta, Privacy, Privacy Shield, safe harbor, Schrems, Schrems II, Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy FrameworkGDPR Move for Mark’s Money: No legal way to move Europeans’ data to the US since 2015. Cloud industry better take note ... Read More
Google Chrome 3rd Party Cookies Crumbling — Finally!
Richi Jennings | | Chrome, cookie, cookies, FLoC, google, omnomnomnomnomnomcookie, Privacy, Privacy Sandbox, SB Blogwatch, Topics, tracking cookiesOm Nom Nom Nom Nom: Privacy Sandbox inching towards reality. But concerns remain ... Read More
TSA Facial Recognition Pilot Flies Solo at U.S. Airports
Richi Jennings | | airport, Airports, biometric, biometric data, Biometric Data Abuse, biometric data protection, biometric security, biometrics, digital biometrics, face recognition, Face verification, facial recognition, facial recognition technology, passport, Passports, Privacy, REAL ID, SB Blogwatch, tsaYour Tinfoil Hat is Under Your Seat: Prepare to have your face scanned at airport security. Are the privacy concerns justified? ... Read More
Knives Out for TikTok as Journo Reveals her Spy Story
Clock Ticking for U.S. Ban: FT’s Cristina Criddle claims ByteDance spied on her—because she wrote damaging stories about TikTok ... Read More
Governments Try to Ban Encryption (Yet Again)
Richi Jennings | | Child Abuse, child exploitation, child porn, child pornography, child sexual exploitation, CSAM, encryption, end-to-end encryption, SB Blogwatch, signal, Threema, WhatsApp, Won’t somebody think of the children?Déjà vu: Yet again, they’re tugging on the “think of the children” strings. But you can’t make math illegal ... Read More
