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Expert Insight: Andrew Snow

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Insights into the new UK–US ‘data bridge’ from our data protection and cyber trainer Andrew Snow is a GDPR DPO (General Data Protection Regulation data protection officer) with extensive public- and private-sector experience in regulatory compliance, privacy compliance framework development, and other areas relating to data protection. He is also an enthusiastic data privacy and cyber security trainer, consistently receiving high praise from course attendees. We sat down to chat to him. What has caught your attention lately? One story important to UK and US organisations wanting to transfer personal data across the Atlantic, yet few seem aware of it,

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 30 October – 5 November 2023

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Welcome to this week’s round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks True Potential leaks clients’ personal data to adviser Date of breach: October 2023 (exact date unknown) Breached organisation: True Potential, a wealth management platform Incident details: True Potential accidentally gave an independent financial advisor, Celtic Financial Planning, access to a spreadsheet that contained True Potential’s customers’ personal information, including their full

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New DDoS Attacks Waves. Cybersecurity Expert Robertino Matausch Explains HTTP/2 Rapid Reset 

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If you switched from using HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 you`re a possible target of massive DDoS attacks. Hackers started recently to exploit a key feature of the HTTP/2 protocol. The vulnerability was called CVE-2023-44487.  The HTTP/2 Rapid Reset DDoS attacks that targeted Google services this August went over 398 million requests per second. The attacks were 76% […]

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SideCopy’s Multi-platform Onslaught: Leveraging WinRAR Zero-Day and Linux Variant of Ares RAT

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SEQRITE Labs APT-Team has discovered multiple campaigns of APT SideCopy, targeting Indian government and defense entities in the past few months. The threat group is now exploiting the recent WinRAR vulnerability CVE-2023-38831 (See our advisory for more details) to deploy AllaKore RAT, DRat and additional payloads. The compromised domains, used to host payloads by SideCopy, […]

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The latest AI predictions for 2024 from an industry expert

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In this highly informative and engaging interview, Check Point expert Sergey Shykevich spills the tea on the trends that he and his threat intelligence team are currently seeing. You’ll get insights into what’s happening with AI and malware, you’ll find out about how nation-state hackers could manipulate generative AI algorithms, and get a […]

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Silent Safeguards – The Essence of ISO 27001 Controls

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ISO 27001, sometimes referred to as ISO/IEC 27001 is an international standard that addresses organizational information security. Issued in 2005 and with a second revision in 2013, the ISO 27001 standard describes the Information Security Management Systems requirements for global controls and safeguards meant to preserve data privacy, protect sensitive information, optimize the organizational cybersecurity […]

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7 actionable security automation best practices

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Nearly 75% of CEOs are concerned about their organizations’ abilities to avert or mitigate a cyber incident. It’s widely known that organizations need to become more resilient and to prioritize continuous delivery capabilities. In our constantly evolving threat landscape, one key way to build resilience is through cyber security automation. Survey data indicates […]

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Privilege Overreach, the Lurking PAM Security Threat

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Managing privileged access to internal resources is a challenge for organizations worldwide. If left unaddressed, it could lead to data breaches, downtime, and financial loss. Statistics show that 80% of data breaches seem to be caused by misuse of privileged account access (Forrester study). For this article, I chose the term “privilege overreach” to describe […]

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How To Break The Metrics Mirage in Vulnerability Management

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Meet Jeff. He’s the CISO of a mid-sized financial services company – and it’s his job to keep the organization safe from security attacks. Every week, he checks the graphs and dashboards in his SIEM (security information and event management) platform. He has set clear KPIs for where these metrics should be, and his team […]

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