Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

China’s New Data Policy and What It Means

China enacted the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) on August 21, 2021 as part of that country’s growing scrutiny of its high tech sector. This law goes into effect on November 1, 2021 and will impose a new set of obligations for data security, especially when combined China’s Data Protection Law. Both ...

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NOV
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CISSP, Computers and Internet, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, Domain 2, privacy, ransomware, Weekend Update

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Privacy Law Update: Colorado Privacy Bill Becomes Law: How Does it Stack Up Against California and Virginia?

By Alysa Zeltzer Hutnik, Aaron Burstein & Lauren Myers on July 8, 2021

The Colorado Legislature recently passed the Colorado Privacy Act (“ColoPA”), joining Virginia and California as states with comprehensive privacy legislation. Colorado Governor Jared Polis signed the bill (SB ...

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AUG
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CISSP, Domain 2, privacy, Weekend Update

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

AA21-200B: Chinese State-Sponsored Cyber Operations: Observed TTPs

Original release date: July 19, 2021

Summary

This advisory uses the MITRE Adversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common Knowledge (ATT&CK®) framework, Version 9, and MITRE D3FEND™ framework, version 0.9.2-BETA-3. See the ATT&CK for Enterprise for all referenced threat actor tactics and techniques and the D3FEND framework for referenced defensive tactics ...

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JUL
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CISSP, cybersecurity, cyberwar, Domain 8, email, encryption, Google, Linux, privacy, ransomware, Software vulnerability, Weekend Update

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Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

3 things you might not know about modern ransomware and how Nefilim makes money

Trend Micro case study explains how the new business model works and how the multistep attacks unfold.  A must read.

How could the ...

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19
JUN
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Computers and Internet, crypto-currency, cybersecurity, Identity Theft, Internet of Things, privacy, ransomware, Security, Weekend Update, Wi-Fi

Weekend Update

A quick Saturday digest of cybersecurity news articles from other sources.

Much of this content is from Bruce Schneier

Cell Phone Location Privacy

We all know that our cell phones constantly give our location away to our mobile network operators; that’s how they work. A group of researchers has figured out a way to fix that. “Pretty Good Phone Privacy” (PGPP) protects both user identity ...

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27
FEB
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Android, Apple, privacy, social engineering, Weekend Update

Data Privacy Day is January 28 2021

The National Cybersecurity Alliance (staysaveonline.org) is supporting International Data Privacy Day.  You and your organization can participate as a Champion by registering on their website.

Millions of people are unaware of and uninformed about how their personal information is being used, collected or shared in our digital society.  Data Privacy Day is an international effort held annually every ...

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JAN
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privacy, public event

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