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The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Act is a broad set of data privacy rules that define how an organization must handle and protect the personal data of citizens of the European Union (EU). The Regulation also outlines the way that organizations can report a data breach. Articles 33 and 34 outline the requirements for breach notification; however, most businesses are still unaware of their responsibilities. Details such as what an organization should report, when, to…

By eSentire There is no doubt that cloud adoption is accelerating at an exponential rate. Whether it’s for business collaboration or to store critical data assets, organizations are increasingly relying on the cloud–– in fact, recent reports have found that 62% of organizations utilize at least two cloud platforms. As a result of this acceleration, we have also seen a multitude of data breaches occurring due to misconfigurations in the cloud, which occur because of…

Education officials in France have spoken out against a new cyber-bullying trend targeting children who were born in 2010. The BBC reports that the malicious new #anti2010 campaign has been spreading online via Twitter and through the video-sharing app TikTok. Videos that encourage viewers to form an “anti-2010 police” have been watched millions of times. Euro News reports that the hashtag #anti2010 had more than 40 million views on TikTok before it was removed. Parents have reportedly become concerned that…

For added security, Windows 11 will forgo the older MBR partition scheme and use GPT instead. That may require users to convert their older hard drives. Here is how to do it. Image: S.Poungsomrith/Shutterstock Current users of Windows 10 who plan to update their operating systems to Windows 11 when it is released in October 2021 will first have to meet several non-negotiable and stringent prerequisites. For example, in its attempt to make Windows PCs…

Most Americans and Canadians say that news of ransomware attacks and data breaches causes them to experience stress. An online survey of 2,500 adults in Canada and the United States found that in relation to cybersecurity, seven in ten respondents (69%) said news of data breaches caused them stress.  The research, which was conducted in July 2021 by research firm Opinion Matters for cybersecurity company Kaspersky, also found that 64% of respondents said that consuming news coverage of…

A British cybersecurity researcher stumbled across his own personal data online after discovering an unsecured database containing the personal information of millions of visitors to Thailand. Bob Diachenko, leader of cybersecurity research at Comparitech, found the unprotected Elasticsearch database on August 22, 2021. Inside the 200GB digital index were records dating back ten years containing the personal details of more than 106 million international travelers. Information exposed in the publicly accessible database consisted of full…

Cyber Defense Magazine predicts: by 2025, cybercrime will cost the world $12 trillion annually. Today, cyber threats are no longer limited to computers. Anything with an electronic pulse is at risk. The question is: is your company prepared to handle a security incident and respond efficiently? “How to handle your cyber incident response and become resilient” webinar with Lisa Forte, Partner @ Red Goat Cyber Security, Andrius Januta, Cyber Security Professional @ Nord Security and…

Just a couple of years of IT experience is all that’s necessary to break into the cybersecurity field with this self-paced training. Image: Sergey Nivens/Shutterstock With the increasingly frequent malware and ransomware attacks, cybersecurity skills are among the most valued in the tech industry, and that isn’t likely to change. So IT professionals who are just at the intermediate level of tech experience can give their careers a boost with the affordable, self-paced Ultimate 2021…

Microsoft is warning its users of a zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 and versions of Windows Server that is being leveraged by remote, unauthenticated attackers to execute code on the target system using specifically crafted office documents. Tracked as CVE-2021-40444 (CVSS score: 8.8), the remote code execution flaw is rooted in MSHTML (aka Trident), a proprietary browser engine for the now-discontinued Internet Explorer and which is used in Microsoft Office to render web content inside…

Move beyond traditional security strategies to protect against the two most common types of ransomware threats By Jon Toor, CMO, Cloudian The Director of the FBI recently described ransomware as posing a threat comparable in scale to the September 11 terrorist attacks. In light of these comments, and after several high-profile ransomware incidents such as the Colonial Pipeline attack, there should be little doubt that ransomware poses the greatest cybersecurity threat to organizations today. Broadly…