Top news of the week: 12.01.2022.
Data Privacy
Breach Response Shift: More Lawyers, Less Cyber-Insurance Coverage
Companies are more likely to rely on outside attorneys to handle cyber response in order to contain potential lawsuits. Meanwhile, cyber-insurance premiums are rising but covering less.
Google, Facebook face big privacy fines in France
Action to be taken for failing to allow French users to easily reject cookie tracking technology.
CISO Stories Podcast: Server Room to War Room - Enterprise Incident Response
Dawn-Marie Hutchinson, CISO at BAT, has navigated organizations during crises with a “play like you practice” Incident Response approach - check it out...
A data ‘black hole’: Europol ordered to delete vast store of personal data
EU police body accused of unlawfully holding information and aspiring to become an NSA-style mass surveillance agency
Europe’s surveillance crisis
Law enforcement and security agencies are bristling at orders to limit their data collection practices.
Europol Ordered to Delete Data Not Tied to Investigations
The EU's law enforcement agency, Europol, has been ordered by a watchdog to not retain for longer than six months any personal data it stores pertaining to
German police under fire for misuse of COVID contact tracing app
German police used a contact tracing app to track down witnesses in a local crime case. The scandal has data protection advocates up in arms, with politicians warning that abuse of the app ...
Attacking RDP from Inside: How we abused named pipes for smart-card hijacking, unauthorized file system access to client machines and more
In this blog post we are going to discuss the details of a vulnerability in Windows Remote Desktop Services, which we recently uncovered. We reported the vulnerability to Microsoft in a...