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2016-05-23 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2016 (week 20)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • Apple bans benign iOS spyware detection, security info app
  • Challenging times for Ireland’s Data Protection Commissioner
  • EU-wide cybersecurity rules adopted by the Council
  • Why Google’s monopoly abuse case in Europe will run and run
  • That Time I Got Publicly ‘Hacked’
  • Health data breaches affect millions, including in Southwest Florida
  • LinkedIn resetting passwords after 117 million user credentials stolen
  • Another reason to hate videoconferences: lousy software security
  • Samsung TV data protection court case in Germany is a wake up call from the past

Click here to find out why

Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: InfoSec, Privacy

2016-05-17 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2016 (week 19)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • Adjust your Facebook, Twitter privacy settings, judge tells jurors in Oracle-Google Java trial
  • Google warns of breach
  • US regulators probe Apple, Google, Verizon & others on security patches
  • DNS root zone key boost
  • Hackers Can Unlock Any HID Door Controller with One UDP Packet
  • 36 firms at risk from that unpatched 2010 SAP vuln? Try 500+
  • Your Instagram Photos Are Leaking
  • NCA decryption refused
  • How I found a huge data leak of a company during a college lecture

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Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Cryptography, InfoSec, Privacy

2016-05-09 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The niner noteworthy stories of 2016 (week 18)

These are the noteworthy stories, in no particular order, that peaked my interest last week.

  • De Teletekstpagina die dertig jaar geheim bleef (in Dutch)
  • Hardened Security Features of iPhone 5s Successfully Hacked in LAPD
  • Companies gun-shy on privacy shield
  • The Private Life of Trash
  • Illinois residents can sue Facebook for photo tagging, judge says
  • Concerns raised over broad scope of DeepMind-NHS health data-sharing
  • Twitter might be going too far in trying to protect our privacy from US
  • Stop resetting your passwords, says UK govt’s spy network
  • Dilbert. Browser data and ethics

Click here to find out why

Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: Cryptography, InfoSec, Privacy

2016-04-29 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

EU/US Privacyshield: one common goal but 180 degree difference in vision

We are registering the start of this century when social media more or less didn’t exist yet, nobody heard of big data and Edward Snowden was still a young man.
At that time it wasn’t hard to see how the European Union and the USA made a gentlemen’s agreement on the processing of personal information in the USA even though the country offered a privacy protection level nowhere close to becoming adequate according to European privacy laws (data protection directive 95/46/EC) on the promise they would behave themselves and companies could be trusted with a self-certification system on which the American FTC (Federal Trade Commission) would keep a close eye. They called it “safe harbour” which lasted for around 15 years.

The adequacy of American data protection hasn’t changed in all these years and with the expected growing protection against unlawful data processing only increasing in the GDPR it will not change in the favour of the American views on privacy anytime soon either.
So why is the privacy shield more a cloak than a protective measure?
Read my analyses here

Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: GDPR, Privacy, Privacy Shield

2016-02-29 by Drs. Andor Demarteau

The Shamrock story

Today I proudly launch my company Shamrock Information Security.
Why this name? Unmistakably the name has an Irish origin shrouded in Irish mystery, tradition and religious history.
But what does this have to do with modern day information security?
Read the full story here!

Filed Under: Noteworthy Series Tagged With: InfoSec, Privacy

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We were introduced to Shamrock Information Security during the development of the AVTN.TV Television News Project. As the projected demands on our systems; need to protect the company from Cyber Attacks; and ensure corporate practices were GDPR compliant increased, Shamrock became invaluable in advising us on the necessary structures and requirements. Their work is most evident within the relevant pages of the AVTN.TV Investment Proposal. I highly recommend their services, and wouldn’t hesitate to commission them in the future.

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