Top news of the week: 12.11.2020.

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Data Privacy

On Nov 9, 2020
@paulsparrows shared
Yet Another Leaky Bucket... Yet Another Disaster... https://t.co/N8OG2m5xlJ
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Millions of Hotel Guests Worldwide Caught Up in Mass Data Leak

Millions of Hotel Guests Worldwide Caught Up in Mass Data Leak

A cloud misconfiguration affecting users of a popular reservation platform threatens travelers with identity theft, scams, credit-card fraud and vacation-stealing.

On Nov 9, 2020
@Infosec_Tourist shared
RT @neirajones: Tim Berners-Lee Is Trying to Fix the Web He Invented with Startup #Inrupt Trying to Let You Control Your Data https://t.co/W3w8v0SoQH #dataprotection #dataprivacy https://t.co/CEqFSXuFwc
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On Nov 10, 2020
@opexxx shared
RT @cybersecboardrm: Apple to Deliver 'Privacy Labels' for Apps, Revealing Data-Sharing Details #Cybersecurity #security https://t.co/BNyRb9lWGX
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Apple to Deliver ‘Privacy Labels’ for Apps, Revealing Data-Sharing Details

Apple to Deliver ‘Privacy Labels’ for Apps, Revealing Data-Sharing Details

Developers will have to reveal how data is shared with any “third-party partners,” which include analytics tools, advertising networks, third-party SDKs or other external vendors.

On Nov 9, 2020
@WeldPond shared
When misconfiguerd S3 bucket meets GDPR it gets expensive. https://t.co/pZZb1r6cgB
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Report: Hotel Reservation Platform Leaves Millions of People Exposed in Massive Data Breach

Report: Hotel Reservation Platform Leaves Millions of People Exposed in Massive Data Breach

Company: Prestige Software, based in Spain. Severity: High Size: 24.4 GB, totaling

On Nov 10, 2020
@BrianHonan shared
RT @danbloom1: EXCLUSIVE: DWP leaves thousands of people's personal data online for more than two *years* The Information Commissioner is examining the incident after 6,000 benefit claimants' National Insurance numbers were put in a spreadsheet for anyone to see https://t.co/bWI2uazF62
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DWP leaves thousands of people's personal data online for more than two years

DWP leaves thousands of people's personal data online for more than two years

EXCLUSIVE: The Information Commissioner is examining the incident after more than 6,000 benefit claimants' National Insurance numbers were left online for more than two years

On Nov 6, 2020
@mikko shared
@magnusfurcifer @doctordns @sqldbawithbeard Well yeah. There's quite a few local infosec companies and plenty of foreign infosec companies run operations here. Here's a list of members of the Finnish Information Security Cluster: https://t.co/p23QVkzhXc F-Secure has around 700 employees in Helsinki.
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Jäsenet

Jäsenet

Our comprehensive service and consulting portfolio includes information security management systems (ISMS), secure software development life cycle processes, information security …

On Nov 9, 2020
@BrianHonan shared
RT @EnterInnov: We have updated our Guidance for Working Remotely webpage, following on from our public consultation earlier this year. This provides guidance for remote working in the longer term, including an employer checklist. See more at https://t.co/uo1Vpb83UE https://t.co/4HCuYwoIpr
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Guidance for working remotely

Guidance for working remotely

General health and safety The HSA has published guidance on working from home which includes advice such as: the key responsibilities for the employee and employer, work-related …

On Nov 9, 2020
@kennwhite shared
After many months hard work, great to see this hit beta. MongoDB E2E client-side field level encryption adds support for GCP & Azure key management. Python, Java, C#/.NET shipping now. Node.js, Scala, Go, .NET Core, PHP, Ruby coming soon. https://t.co/rVE2ICUOR2
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Client-Side Field Level Encryption is now on Azure and Google Cloud

Client-Side Field Level Encryption is now on Azure and Google Cloud

MongoDB Client-Side Field Level Encryption is now multi-cloud on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. It gives you some of the strongest levels of data privacy available anywhere. Learn more about ...