Seamless EU-UK Data Flows to Continue Following Adequacy Decisions

Seamless EU-UK Data Flows to Continue Following Adequacy Decisions

The European Union (EU) has formally granted the UK adequacy status, allowing the flow of personal data between the two regions to continue seamlessly. Earlier today, it was announced that the EU adopted two adequacy decisions for the UK – one under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the other for the Law Enforcement Directive. These acknowledge that UK data protection rules are “essentially equivalent” to EU standards in both areas. The decisions by the EU Commission…

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Dell Technologies Drives Convergence of High Performance Computing, AI and Data Analytics with Omnia Open Source Software | Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies Drives Convergence of High Performance Computing, AI and Data Analytics with Omnia Open Source Software | Dell Technologies

ROUND ROCK, Texas, June 28, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — News summary Dell Technologies-developed open source Omnia software speeds and simplifies AI and compute-intensive workload deployment and management HPC on demand services now offer pay-as-you-go resources for hybrid clouds with VMware infrastructure  Dell EMC PowerEdge servers add NVIDIA accelerator options for advanced computing Full story Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) is introducing new solutions to help customers better manage the convergence of high performance computing (HPC), artificial intelligence…

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Reported HMRC-Branded Phishing Scams Grew by 87% During COVID-19

Reported HMRC-Branded Phishing Scams Grew by 87% During COVID-19

Suspected HMRC-branded phishing scams grew by 87% during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to official figures obtained by accountancy group Lanop Outsourcing following a Freedom of Information (FoI) request. This data revealed that reports of phishing scams impersonating the UK’s tax, payments and customs authority surged from 572,029 in the financial year 2019-20 to 1,069,522 from April 2020 to April 2021. Messages related to tax rebates or refunds made up the majority of reported scams, comprising 690,522 out…

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Extending Zero Trust Security to Industrial Networks

Extending Zero Trust Security to Industrial Networks

Recent cyber attacks on industrial organizations and critical infrastructures have made it clear: operational and IT networks are inseparably linked. With digitization, data needs to seamlessly flow between enterprise IT and industrial OT networks for the business to function. This tighter integration between IT, OT, and Cloud domains has increased the attack surface of both – the industrial and the enterprise networks. The traditional security perimeter that industrial organizations have built over the years by…

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Cybersecurity study: SolarWinds attack cost affected US companies an average of $12 million

Cybersecurity study: SolarWinds attack cost affected US companies an average of  million

New survey finds that the attack also motivated more information sharing within the industry and improved supply chain security. Image: Shutterstock/Vchal The good news is that security teams are beefing up network defenses, but the bad news is that most companies have recently suffered a cybersecurity incident that required a board meeting. That’s the analysis from the 2021 Cybersecurity Impact Report from IronNet.  The report is based on interviews with 473 security IT decision makers…

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Review: 6 top videoconferencing services put to the test

Review: 6 top videoconferencing services put to the test

Fifteen months after the US and Europe went into lockdown for the first time, many office-based employees have still not returned to their pre-pandemic workplaces. During that time, videoconferencing apps have continued to see an unprecedented — and unsurprising — level of popularity. And as conversations about what the workplace of the future might look like gather steam, organizations are increasingly looking to firm up their collaboration technology stack to support a shift to hybrid…

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The Department of Defense, networking, and the speed of relevance

The Department of Defense, networking, and the speed of relevance

If yours is like most enterprises, it is under intense competitive pressure to understand faster, decide faster, and act faster in an increasingly dynamic environment. For businesses, that environment is the economy. But for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), the environment in which they must leverage technology and tactics against deadly adversaries is more like a battlefield. And all but the most self-aggrandizing sales directors would agree that the stakes on the battlefield are…

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Review: 6 top videoconferencing services put to the test

Review: 6 top videoconferencing services put to the test

Fifteen months after the US and Europe went into lockdown for the first time, many office-based employees have still not returned to their pre-pandemic workplaces. During that time, videoconferencing apps have continued to see an unprecedented — and unsurprising — level of popularity. And as conversations about what the workplace of the future might look like gather steam, organizations are increasingly looking to firm up their collaboration technology stack to support a shift to hybrid…

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Mercedes Benz Data Leak Includes Card and Social Security Details

Mercedes Benz Data Leak Includes Card and Social Security Details

Mercedes Benz has released details of a data breach affecting customers and prospective buyers in the US. The luxury carmaker said a vendor had informed the company on June 11 that the information was “inadvertently made accessible on a cloud storage platform.” It appears that a third-party security researcher first raised the alarm. Although the initial investigation was set to discover whether 1.6 million unique records had been exposed, subsequent findings indicated far fewer customers…

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