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For a while, privacy in Q2 was looking like it would follow the season’s idiomatic rule: in like a lion, out like a lamb. But it came roaring back in June with a new U.S. state law, EU adequacy decisions, a new EU data transfer mechanism, and more. As we look back over the second quarter of 2021, several important developments are worth noting. U.S. State Privacy Overall, the short legislative season proved to be…

 Business email compromise (BEC) and ransomware attacks prove most costly phishing threats to large businesses SUNNYVALE, Calif., August 17, 2021 – Proofpoint, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFPT), a leading cybersecurity and compliance company, and Ponemon Institute, a top IT security research organization, today released the results of a new study on the Cost of Phishing. The report reveals that the cost of phishing attacks have almost quadrupled over the past six years, with large U.S. companies losing an average…

A House of Representatives panel has asked for a study to be done on the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to analyze prisoners’ phone calls. Reuters reports that the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) has been asked to report on the use of AI monitoring as a tool to prevent suicide and violent crime.  The monitoring systems would be used to analyze and automatically transcribe inmates’ conversations, flagging particular words or phrases. Such technology is already…

T-Mobile has launched an investigation into a claim that the personal data of more than 100 million of its customers had been compromised.  The claim was first discovered and reported by Vice News. Researchers came across a hacker on an online forum asking for Bitcoin in exchange for Social Security numbers. Though T-Mobile isn’t mentioned in the forum for sale post, the hacker told Vice that the data was a subset of 100 million records that had been taken…

The formerly British-owned chocolate maker Cadbury has launched the second phase of a campaign that encourages people to take action when they witness cyber-bullying. The #HeartTheHate campaign asks internet users to mark social media posts that have attracted online abuse with a purple heart emoji.  Cadbury, which was bought by American multinational company Mondelēz International in 2003, initially cooked up the campaign in 2019 to show solidarity with abuse victims.  The campaign was launched after a poll of 89,685…

Another ransomware gang, the Vice Society ransomware operators, is using Windows print spooler PrintNightmare exploits in its attacks. The Vice Society ransomware operators are actively exploiting Windows print spooler PrintNightmare vulnerability in their attacks against Windows servers. The PrintNightmare flaws (tracked as  (CVE-2021-1675, CVE-2021-34527, and CVE-2021-36958) reside in the Windows Print Spooler service, print drivers, and the Windows Point and Print feature. An attacker can exploit these vulnerabilities for local privilege escalation (LPE) or remote code execution (RCE). Microsoft issued…

We have a wonderful news to share with our Australian customers! VMware Cloud on AWS has successfully completed the IRAP cloud security assessment. The IRAP Cloud Security Assessment demonstrates our compliance against the Australian Information Security Manual (ISM) and Protective Security Policy Framework (PSPF) and shows VMware Cloud on AWS’ suitability to handle Australian government data. VMware engaged Foresight Inc, a registered IRAP assessor to evaluate the service at PROTECTED level. The assessors evaluated VMware…