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The New Security Scare: Jackpotting Attacks on ATM Machines

February 5, 2018

ATM machines have always represented a “soft target” in the minds of criminals. What’s now clear is that the ATM card skimmer scams of years past pale in comparison with what’s possible now with jackpotting scams with cyber criminals turning every ATM they visit into casino slot machines with huge jackpots.

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Data Privacy News

ICO Flexes Its Muscles with 69% Increase in Fines for Spam and Data Breaches

February 7, 2018

UK's ICO is increasingly active in their efforts to reduce offences in anti-spam regulations and data breaches. In 2017, we witnessed an annual rise in fines of nearly 69 percent, from £2.9 to £4.9 million. A total of 104 companies has been fined a total of £8.7 million for failures since August 2015.

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Securing Microfinance in Developing Countries with microSD-Sized Computers

February 9, 2018

There's a need to secure offline, rather than online, microfinancing solutions. The future rests in the power of embeddable microchips and the power of process isolation by inserting a Linux-powered computer into the architecture of an non-secure IoT device to create a hardware Root of Trust.

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Social Fitness Apps May Be More Harmful to User Privacy Than You Think

February 12, 2018

Social fitness apps such as Strava need to be doing more to enhance user privacy and safety. The recent snafu involving the disclosure of U.S. military personnel location data has increased awareness of the perils created by tracking apps. Learn more about how these apps are collecting data, and how they are using it.

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Data Protection News

GDPR Amber Alert: Only Two Countries Fully Prepared

February 21, 2018

Less than 100 days to go, and so far only two European countries have adapted their laws to be ready for GDPR. While the GDPR aims to harmonize rules across the European Union and to benefit companies to deal with just one law, many member states are eyeing possible exemptions as they change their national laws.

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What You Need To Know About the New NIST Report on IoT

February 26, 2018

For years, IoT developers have focused too much on availability, and not enough on privacy and confidentiality. This mindset appears to be shifting and the NIST report is proof of a growing recognition that there needs to be universal standards in place to improve the privacy and security of any IoT system.

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EU Wants Data Protection to Go Hand in Hand with Trade Deals

March 12, 2018

Personal data protection is a fundamental EU right and is not negotiable in trade deals, The European Commission has provided four conditions for international data flows to comply with the GDPR. Yet, there is a “get out of jail free card,” allowing restrictions to be reviewed and accorded "sympathetic" consideration.

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Google’s Gmail Privacy Practices Now Under Legal Attack

March 21, 2018

Google has tried to clean up its Gmail privacy practices, saying that it will no longer use or scan Gmail content for any advertising purposes. Now, Gallo is representing consumers who never signed up for a Google account or Gmail account, but who still had their email messages read. This could be a real game-changer.

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Fakebank Android Malware Evolves into Vishing Attack

March 23, 2018

Latest variant of Fakebank Android malware adds even more functional threats to banking clients – in the form of ‘vishing’ (voice phishing). It can now intercept outgoing and incoming calls which is then redirected to scammers which allows them to pose as legitimate employees of the bank.

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Security Pros Believe Governments Are Clueless but Should Impose Social Media Regulation

May 2, 2018

Seventy percent of security pros want governments to impose social media regulation for the collection of personal data by social media companies. Yet, expectations are hazy and 72% also indicated that they have little to no faith that government officials have an understanding of the threats to digital privacy.

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The New Security Scare: Jackpotting Attacks on ATM Machines

ICO Flexes Its Muscles with 69% Increase in Fines for Spam and Data Breaches

Securing Microfinance in Developing Countries with microSD-Sized Computers

Social Fitness Apps May Be More Harmful to User Privacy Than You Think

What You Need To Know About the New NIST Report on IoT

Google’s Gmail Privacy Practices Now Under Legal Attack

Fakebank Android Malware Evolves into Vishing Attack

Security flaw in Microsoft’s Analytics Platform Titan Exposes 17 Trillion Records

Meta Muse AI Assistant’s Zero-Day Vulnerability Could Enable Attackers to Inject Malware

New Disclosure of “Meddling” OpenAI Agents Includes Attacks on UN and US Government Websites

ShinyHunters Hacks the FBI in a Security Breach Exposing Personal Information of 38,000 People