Privacy

Talking privacy with Harvey Jang, Cisco’s chief privacy officer

The biggest mistake IT leaders make in trying to secure sensitive data is not understanding where their data is and how it flows, says Cisco Systems’ vice-president and chief privacy officer. “Some of the challenges where there are slip-ups is when organizations don’t fully understand or know their data flow architecture,” Harvey Jang, the company’s […]

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Meta Updates Facebook’s Privacy Policy

Meta has updated the privacy policies of Facebook and Instagram, in an effort to simplify and make it easier to understand how the company...

QuickBooks Customers Being Targeted in Phishing Attacks – Intuit

Tax software vendor Intuit cautioned QuickBooks users that they are being targeted in ongoing phishing attacks where threat actors pose as Intuit personnel to...

Hackers Able To Hack Online Accounts Even Before Registration

Research shows that hackers may hijack online accounts before users even register them by exploiting flaws that have since been fixed on popular websites...

Privacy Commissioner’s bulletin helps Canadian firms handle sensitive personal information

Documents pulls together court and OPC rulings on what sensitive information could include and how it should be treated

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Canada should limit police use of facial recognition technology, say privacy commissioners

Use of facial recognition should be limited to serious crimes and identifying certain people at the border, says federal privacy commissioner

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Cyber Security Today, April 27, 2022 – Lots of software still has log4j2 vulnerabilities, hackers took only days to exploit a VMware vulnerability and...

This episode reports on Log4Shell vulnerabilities, the speedy work of hackers, a website that catalogs one hacker's efforts to compromise the NPM library and a risky wireless brake light solution

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