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Privacy Shield: Should I stay or should I go?

The lead up to the GDPR enforcement date consumed a large swath of media coverage. This essentially buried the news that in early July 2018, the European Union Parliament …

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23% of UK SMBs still use USB drives as their primary data storage solution

Mny British companies are finding it hard to store and manage their company’s data effectively. Seagate polled a representative sample of 1,006 UK SMB employees, asking them …

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Blocking compromised passwords: How and why to do it

Passwords are beginning to feel like the zombie that just won’t die. Even after Bill Gates famously called for their demise in 2004, this antiquated form of user verification …

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Week in review: DNS interception, critical Apache Struts flaw, cybersecurity career pathing

Here’s an overview of some of last week’s most interesting news and articles: The importance of career pathing in the cybersecurity industry A major issue facing …

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Google removes 39 YouTube channels linked to Iranian influence operations

Google has identified and removed 39 YouTube channels, six blogs on Blogger and thirteen Google+ accounts linked to IRIB, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting, which were …

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New infosec products of the week​: August 24, 2018

DefenseCode announces free edition of their Web Security Scanner DefenseCode Web Security Scanner is a DAST (Dynamic Application Security Testing) product for testing security …

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Why do enterprises take a long time to install vital security updates

More than a quarter (27%) of enterprise IT departments in the US are forced to wait at least a month before installing vital security updates, due to budgetary restraints and …

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Nearly half of businesses suffered an unrecoverable data event in the last three years

Over 90% of respondents do not consider their organization to be IT resilient and nearly half have suffered an unrecoverable data event in the last three years, according to …

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6.4 billion fake emails sent every day

The Valimail Q2 2018 Email Fraud Landscape shows that fake email continues to be a serious problem, with an estimated 6.4 billion fake emails sent every day. That total …

Wemo
Hacking smart plugs to enter business networks

McAfee researchers have discovered a buffer overflow flaw in Belkin’s Wemo Insight Smart Plug that can be exploited by attackers to access and interfere with other …

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Critical Apache Struts flaw opens enterprises to compromise, patch ASAP!

A critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2018-11776) in Apache Struts, the popular open source framework for developing Java-based web apps, could allow remote …

Money
Global information security spending to exceed $124 billion in 2019

Worldwide spending on information security products and services will reach more than $114 billion in 2018, an increase of 12.4 percent from last year, according to the latest …

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