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DHS: Risk of destructive cyberattack on grid ‘low’

07

Apr

2016

The risk that nation-state hackers will launch a destructive cyber-attack on the U.S. grid is low, according to a Department of Homeland Security intelligence assessment leaked by the research project Public Intelligence. “The majority of malicious activity occurring against the U.S. energy sector is low-level cyber-crime that is likely opportunistic in nature rather than specifically […]

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Governance the often-missing piece of Information Security

14

Mar

2016

It seems AT&T learned that lesson last year when it agreed to pay $25 million to settle an investigation into data breaches at call centers in Mexico, Colombia and the Philippines. Those breaches led to the disclosure of personal information on some 280,000 U.S. customers. From November 2013 until April 2014, three call center employees […]

Category Network security Written by Itsecurity 0 Comments

Electronic Frontier Foundation opinion piece pokes holes in EU-U.S. Privacy Shield

07

Mar

2016

Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Forum (EFF) yesterday came out swinging against the Privacy Shield, the intended successor to the recently invalidated Safe Harbor agreement, which sets official policy on how companies must handle the exchange of consumers’ personal data from Europe to the U.S. In a scathing blog post, the EFF asserted that […]

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