With reports of a data breach coming nearly every day, and sometimes multiple times a day, it is getting difficult to keep track of all of them. There were 69% more data breaches in 2021 compared with 2020, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) in its annual report on data breaches. In the report, ITRC identified threee primary causes of a data breach: data...
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In a sign that threat actors continuously shift tactics and update their defensive measures, the operators of the SolarMarker information stealer and backdoor have been found leveraging stealthy Windows Registry tricks to establish long-term persistence on compromised systems. Cybersecurity firm Sophos, which spotted the new behavior, said that the remote access implants are still being detected on targeted networks despite the campaign witnessing a decline in...
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A decision by the UK Court of Appeal to allow a claim for contravention of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) to be served against U.S. defendants has raised questions over the territorial limits of the regulations. The case emphasizes the broad geographic applicability of both the EU GDPR and the UK GDPR and the interpretations that exist. The UK Court of Appeal...
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