Data Protection GDPR Privacy Security

EU Courts’ ruling requires to protect data that indirectly relates to sensitive information

Companies will be under increased pressure after Europe’s top court ruled they must apply special protections to data that firms previously didn’t consider sensitive such as health, religion, political views and sexual orientation. The European Court of Justice on Aug. 1 determined that public officials in Lithuania had their sensitive data revealed because their spouses’ […]

Hack Multifactor Authentication Password Management Phishing

Cisco hacked by password storage in the browser and MFA fatique

Cisco confirmed it was the victim of a cyberattack on May 24, 2022 after the attackers got hold of an employee’s personal Google account that contained passwords synced from their web browser.“Initial access to the Cisco VPN was achieved via the successful compromise of a Cisco employee’s personal Google account” “The user had enabled password […]

Privacy

Amazon starts mapping your house

Amazon bought for $1.7 billion iRobot company with the smart vaccuum cleaner Roomba to get inside into your house. What else might be from Amazon in your house:– Echo smart speakers estimated 9.9 million units sold;– Video doorbell Ring which was bought for $1 billion;– Smart Camera Blink;– wi-fi company Eero. What can your derive […]

Blockchain Crypto Hack Vulnerability

Nearly 8.000 wallets with more than $5 million emptied after Solana hack

Nearly 8,000 digital wallets have been drained of just over $5.2 million in digital coins including solana’s sol token and USD Coin (USDC), according to blockchain analytics firm Elliptic. Engineers from multiple ecosystems, with the help of several security firms, are investigating drained wallets on solana. The suggestion is that there must have been some […]

DPIA GDPR Privacy

Study on Privacy Risks of the Metaverse

This study by Vivek Nair, Dwan Song (both of UC Berkeley) and Gonzalo Munilla Garrido (Technical University of Munich) sheds a light on the unprecedented privacy risks of the metaverse by showing how VR can be turned against its users and provides the first holistic framework for understanding intrusive data harvesting attacks in these emerging […]