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Proposed UN Cybercrime Treaty Threatens to be an Expansive Global Surveillance Pact

Posted on August 25, 2023 by Dissent

Katitza Rodriguez of EFF writes: In the heart of New York City, a watershed moment for protecting users against unfettered government surveillance is unfolding at the sixth session of negotiations to formulate the UN Cybercrime Convention. Delegates from Member States have convened at UN Headquarters for talks this week and next that will shape the digital and…

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Joint statement on data scraping and data protection

Posted on August 24, 2023 by Dissent

The Information Commissioner’s Office and eleven other data protection and privacy authorities from around the world have today published a joint statement calling for the protection of people’s personal data from unlawful data scraping taking place on social media sites. Data scraping is an automated way to pull large amounts of information from the web. Scraping from…

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Lapsus$: court finds teenagers carried out hacking spree

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Dissent

Joe Tidy reports: A court has found an 18-year-old from Oxford was a part of an international cyber-crime gang responsible for a hacking spree against major tech firms Arion Kurtaj was a key member of the Lapsus$ group which hacked the likes of Uber, Nvidia and Rockstar Games. A court heard Kurtaj leaked clips of…

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SEC Cybersecurity Rule Leans on Materiality and Reasonableness

Posted on August 23, 2023 by Dissent

Rachel V. Rose, Ted Dziekanowski, and Andy Watkin-Child report: The US Securities and Exchange Commission released its final rule, effective Sept. 5, 2023, on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure. Investors, registrants, and other market participants should take special notice of two key terms in the regulations: “materiality” and the “reasonable investor.” The SEC…

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New Chrome Feature Alerts Users About Malicious Extensions

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Dissent

Alessandro Mascellino reports: Google has announced an update set to be introduced in Chrome 117. This new feature aims to proactively inform users when an extension they have installed is no longer available on the Chrome Web Store. The move comes as part of the tech giant’s ongoing commitment to enhance security measures within its…

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Health Data Breach Lawsuits Surge as Cyberattacks Keep Climbing

Posted on August 22, 2023 by Dissent

Skye Witley and Christopher Brown report: Companies handling health data are fending off more cyberattacks each year, and those that do get hacked are facing costly litigation at rapidly rising rates, a Bloomberg Law analysis found. The monthly average of new class actions filed over health data breaches so far this year is nearly double…

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