All Privacy & Technology articles – Page 4
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Phishing, Third-Party Risk and the Signal and Twilio Attack
Communications provider Twilio suffered a phishing attack on 4 August. On Monday, 11 days later, messaging app Signal disclosed that some of its users have been impacted by the attack.
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Google’s £35m Australian Fine: Consumer Law Steps In Where Privacy Law Would Fail
Australia’s privacy regime is weak compared to most other major economies. Yet on Friday, an Australian court ordered Google to pay AUD 60 million (£35 million) in fines for its “deceptive” data collection practices.
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‘Indiscriminate Scanning’: EU Authorities Criticise Child Abuse Detection Proposals
The European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) have published an opinion about proposed child safety measures that they claim could lead to “indiscriminate scanning of the content of virtually all types of electronic communications of all users”.
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Webinar
The Human Element: Reducing Email Data Breaches By Combatting Human-Activated Risk
Did you know that 91% of cyberattacks are distributed by email and 82% of data breaches involve a human element?
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Best Practices for Detecting, Preventing and Recovering From Ransomware
Ransomware continues to cause huge losses and harms across the globe. But taking a proactive approach to security and business continuity can reduce the likelihood of falling victim to an attack—and reduce the damage that occurs if you are targeted.
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Key Tactics for Effective Cybersecurity
As the pandemic pushed millions of workers home, corporations rushed to build infrastructure to support their new remote workforce.
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Can European Regulators Stop Clearview AI?
The US-based facial recognition company Clearview AI once told investors that “almost everyone in the world” could soon be identifiable via its biometric database. The company’s methods have been declared illegal in multiple jurisdictions—most recently in the UK. But do European regulators actually have any power to stop Clearview AI?
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The Future of ERM: Technologies and Frameworks
From the artificial inteliigence models used to predict and detect risk to the ever-changing regulatory landscape, our last panel of the day will consider what the future holds for ERM.
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Creating a Robust Data Breach Management Policy
This session will consider the key elements of a data breach management policy, from detection and notification to mitigation and review stages.
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Article
The Splintering of Global Data Flows: Is the ‘Risk-Based Approach’ Dead?
To combat foreign government surveillance, European data protection regulators are taking an increasingly hardline stance on GDPR enforcement that could drastically change the internet. Some argue that a more pragmatic, “risk-based approach” could help avoid severe disruption. But a recent decision against Google suggests those people are losing the debate.
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Meet the expert: Scott Warren among speakers at PrivSec Focus: Enterprise Risk
We are delighted to announce that cybersecurity and data privacy leader, Scott Warren will be lending his expertise to the discussion at PrivSec Focus: Enterprise Risk.
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Analysis
Cash App Data Breach Exposes Over 8-Million Customers
Often when we think of data breaches, we think of external cyber threat actors utilizing ransomware to make a profit. We rarely think that our own employees could be the culprit of a massive data breach.
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Video
Ongoing Vendor Monitoring: Aiming for Total Transparency
Changes in vendors’ practices or supply chains can expose your business to unexpected risk. PrivSec Third-Party Risk will explore how to effectively monitor your third-party relationships on an ongoing basis and achieve near-total third-party transparency.
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Fast, smart and connected: a renewed approach to third-party risk management
In this webinar, Anna Mazzone, EMEA VP & Head of Risk & ESG at ServiceNow and Linda Tuck Chapman discuss options for strengthening the process to deliver a more efficient risk assessment process, what are the best companies doing, and how is ESG intersecting with supply chain risk management and third party risk management.
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Vendor transparency, supply chain attacks and ethics under the microscope at PrivSec Focus: Third-Party Risk
PrivSec Focus: Third-Party Risk brought subject-matter experts and industry thought leaders together today to bring up-to-the-minute insight into the world of third-party risk management (TPRM).
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Meet the expert: Puja Verma to speak at PrivSec Focus: Third-Party Risk
We are delighted to announce that legal specialist, Puja Verma will be speaking at PrivSec Focus: Third-Party Risk.
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Meet the expert: André H. Paris to appear at PrivSec Focus: Third-Party Risk
Data privacy and compliance consultant, André H. Paris will be speaking at PrivSec Focus: Third-Party Risk.
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News
Cybersecurity fears now greater than Covid anxiety for global business community
Cyber perils are the biggest concern for companies globally in 2022, with the threat of ransomware attacks, data breaches or major IT outages causing the most anxiety for cyber specialists.
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News
Russian cybercriminals’ campaign hit by FBI, US says
The FBI has seized a huge stash of IT hardware belonging to Russian military hackers, the White House has said.
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Data privacy violations sees Danske Bank reported to authorities
The data protection regulator in Denmark has reported the country’s Danske Bank to police following the institution’s failure to delete customers personal information in its IT systems, the bank reported today.