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Daily Security News from @trustpath - Oct 19, 2016
Daily Security news from @trustpath.
Mandatory data breach notification laws hit Parliament
If passed into law, the Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016, introduced by Keenan on 19 October, would compel government …
Govt’s data breach notification bill enters parliament
The government made it clear in both the exposure draft and bill that while it wants to prevent under-reporting of data breaches in Australia, it also …
Consumers to be notified of data breaches
Consumers to be notified of data breaches. Australian Associated Press. October 19, 2016 10:14am. Australians would be notified of serious breaches …
Why Asia is a prime target for cybercriminals
He added it was possible that only 10 to 20 per cent of the data breaches that take place in Asia Pacific are reported. Earlier this month, the Singapore …
How Europe Can Fight Cyber Attacks (And Win)
For the first time, companies across Europe will be required to disclose data breaches to national data protection authorities and, where warranted, …
Australia’s new data breach disclosure laws have a rather floppy definition
The Register The draft Privacy Amendment (Notifiable Data Breaches) Bill 2016 (PDF) doesn’t make it compulsory to report a breach. It would not be appropriate …
6 things schools can do to ensure student data privacy
Student data privacy is quite a different topic from the headlines most people read concerning data breaches. It is not about malicious intruders …
Synchronised security is new key for protection against cyber threats:
Daily News Egypt Sophos Intercept X is an integral part of our endpoint protection portfolio. It can be managed alongside other Sophos products through the …
Robust Tools to Enhance Data Storage Security for Small Businesses
Numerous high-profile data breaches at major organizations ranging from banks to retailers have brought data security a top-of-mind apprehension for …
Lessons in trust learned from Yahoo’s data breaches
numerous news stories have emerged on the breach of 5 million Yahoo email …
YOUR business website has at least one severe vulnerability - giving
SC Magazine UK Of course it’s not only internal costs, but the additional costs of data breaches - bad PR and potential fines can be massive. We’ve all seen the …
Duo adds next-gen ‘human’ MFA identity access management offering to lineup
A 2015 Verizon Cyber Security Report showed 85% of data breaches are caused by stolen credentials. What we’ve seen is that the number of …
DarkMatter and NetApp Announce Partnership to Drive Data Management and
PR Newswire (press release) … in the data environment – all the more so given the regular announcements of increasingly large and damaging data breaches across industries.
Securing Your Most Vital Asset: Your Data
We saw this back in 2014 and 2015 when Target and TalkTalk both fell victim to data breaches. The year following Target’s breach, only 33 percent of …
NAIC Data Law Runs into Jumble of Opposition
NAIC-level discussion around the data security model law is a sign that top-level leaders are beginning to take data breaches seriously. States like …
KnowBe4 Launches Industry’s First Ransomware Simulator
Most endpoint protection is, at best, moderately effective in blocking variants, and many antivirus products do not catch anything. The FBI issued a PSA …
Carbon Black, Next-Gen AV Provider, Named a Leader in Endpoint Security
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Local authorities say data breaches are ‘accidents waiting to happen’
Local authorities hold sensitive and private information about all of us that we wouldn’t want getting into the hands of the wrong people. Over half of all …
Regulators looking to strengthen banks’ cyber defenses
WASHINGTON (AP) Federal regulators are looking to set up new standards for big banks’ planning and testing for possible cyberattacks. The aim is …
CrowdStrike Named a Strong Performer by Forrester in The Forrester Wave:
Business Wire (press release) In addition, CrowdStrike Falcon provides unrivalled visibility within its endpoint detection and response (EDR) solution. As part of the company’s …
Insiders responsible for most of the 240000 patient records last month
Fifteen of September’s 37 data breaches came due to insider activity. Seven of those incidents occurred because the insider inadvertently or otherwise …
Why the most valuable security assets are human, not technical
… understand the potential organizational risks from data breaches. That correlates with the 60 percent of companies that feel their employees are not …
CrowdStrike Named a Strong Performer by Forrester in The Forrester Wave:
Business Wire (press release) IRVINE, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–CrowdStrike, the leader in cloud-delivered next-generation endpoint protection, today announced that Forrester …
Regulators looking to strengthen banks’ cyber defenses
… Office of Personnel Management’s databases, which the U.S. believed was carried out by Chinese cyber spies. In one of the worst data breaches in …
New York Jumps Ahead In Data Security Regs
Recent data breaches have even pointed to network threats from abroad that appear to be able to penetrate as deep as the U.S. election process.
Russian hacker connected to 2012 LinkedIn data breach is arrested
A hacker allegedly involved in one of the largest known data breaches to affect a U.S. tech company is now behind bars. On the morning of June 5 …
Millennials Want Companies to Adopt New Identity Verification Approaches
Two-thirds of U.S. millennials are worried about identity theft and data breaches; their global counterparts are more concerned (75%). To mitigate risk …
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