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🔏 New Bill Would Create Federal Data Protection Agency 🔏

New legislation, introduced today, would give the agency authority to enforce data practices, launch investigations, and issue subpoenas.

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Privacy Experts Skeptical of Proposed Data Protection Agency

A new Data Protection Agency would overhaul federal regulation efforts around data privacy - but experts are skeptical that the U.S. government can get it right.

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via "Threatpost".
🔐 Report: 9 times out of 10, hackers can attack website visitors 🔐

A Positive Technologies study finds 82% of web application vulnerabilities lie in the source code.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Apps Remain Favorite Mobile Attack Vector 🕴

Mobile apps are used in nearly 80% of attacks targeting mobile devices, followed by network and operating system attacks.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 Key components of the CEO's agenda for the digital enterprise 🔐

CEOs are generally from a finance/business track, rather than a technology one--why their traditional agenda and practices must change.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Small Business Security: 5 Tips on How and Where to Start 🕴

There is no one-size-fits-all strategy for security, but a robust plan and the implementation of new technologies will help you and your IT team sleep better.

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🕴 7 Tax Season Security Tips 🕴

Security pros need be on high alert from now until Tax Day on April 15. Here are seven ways to help keep your company safe.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 IoT device security: 5 tips for enterprises 🔐

There are now billions of IoT devices in businesses across the world, prompting the need for increased security measures to protect them.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
ATENTION New - CVE-2012-1903

XSS in Telligent Community 5.6.583.20496 via a flash file and related to the allowScriptAccess parameter.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
ATENTION New - CVE-2012-1500

Stored XSS vulnerability in UpdateFieldJson.jspa in JIRA 4.4.3 and GreenHopper before 5.9.8 allows an attacker to inject arbitrary script code.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
Critical WordPress Plugin Bug Afflicts 700K Sites

Researchers are urging users of the GDPR Cookie Consent WordPress plugin to update as soon as possible.

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via "Threatpost".
🕴 Huawei Charged with RICO Violations in Federal Court 🕴

A new set of indictments adds conspiracy to violate RICO statutes to a list of existing charges against the Chinese telecommunications giant.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 Babel of IoT Authentication Poses Security Challenges 🕴

With more than 80 different schemes for authenticating devices either proposed or implemented, best practices and reference architectures are sorely needed, experts say.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
ATENTION New - CVE-2012-5623

Squirrelmail 4.0 uses the outdated MD5 hash algorithm for passwords.

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via "National Vulnerability Database".
🕴 Architectural Analysis IDs 78 Specific Risks in Machine-Learning Systems 🕴

The new threat model hones in on ML security at the design state.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🕴 DDoS Attacks Nearly Double Between Q4 2018 and Q4 2019 🕴

Peer-to-peer botnets, TCP reflection attacks, and increased activity on Sundays are three DDoS attack trends from last quarter.

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via "Dark Reading: ".
🔐 Man tries to sell Jimmy Wales on blockchain for Wikipedia's security problems--Wales doesn't buy it 🔐

Commentary: It takes hubris to tell Jimmy Wales, the founder of Wikipedia, how to store data.

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via "Security on TechRepublic".
🕴 Coronavirus Raises New Business Continuity, Phishing Challenges for InfoSec 🕴

What happens when understaffed security teams at home and abroad are sequestered in physical quarantine zones?

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via "Dark Reading: ".
Corp.com is up for sale – check your Active Directory settings!

An old, dormant domain is going on sale - and the results could be catastrophic for enterprises with common Active Directory misconfigurations.

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via "Naked Security".
Self-driving car dataset missing labels for pedestrians, cyclists

Udacity Dataset 2, used to train thousands of engineers, contained thousands of unlabeled vehicles and hundreds of unlabeled pedestrians.

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via "Naked Security".
Facebook ices in-app dating in EU after questions from regulator

The app's rollout in the EU has been delayed until Facebook can show privacy regulators its data protection workings.

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via "Naked Security".