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Security News Bites for the Week Ending May 5, 2023

Government Contractors Affected by TikTok Ban Too The White House issued a memo in February requiring the removal of TikTok from federal information systems as required by the consolidated appropriations Act of 2023. How this affects contractors is that it also includes IT “used by a contractor under a contract with the executive agency that […]

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Companies Hit With Data Breach Lawsuits

The law firm Baker Hostetler published its 2023 Data Security Incident Response Report. It is based on more than 1,100 cybersecurity incidents investigated by them last year. Here are some of the statistics they published: The most common actions after initial access were: While a blockchain data analysis company said that the total amount of […]

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Security News for the Week Ending April 28, 2023

A Couple of Annoyed Redditors Launched Website to Anonymously Rate Your Landlord – What Could Possibly Go Wrong? While I understand why some folks might be annoyed at their landlord, how do you verify anything that is on the site? Until now there really hasn’t been a way to figure out whether a landlord treats […]

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The EU is Enforcing the Digital Services Act and it Might Help You

According to the Electronic Frontier Foundation, The DSA overhauls the EU’s core platform regulation, the e-Commerce Directive, and is intended to be an important tool in making the internet a fairer place by setting out new legal responsibilities for online platforms and educating users on why content is removed and what they can do about it. […]

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Data Retention, Minimization and the Elephant in the Room

As U.S. states implement new second-generation privacy laws (there are currently 8 states – can you name all of them?), the rules regarding data retention are changing and you might want to be prepared – unless, of course, you enjoy spending tens of thousands of dollars on lawyers to defend yourself, hours being deposed and […]

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