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• Privacy Issues Found in Vote Joe App

  14-09-2020 20:17
  
  Privacy Issues Found in Vote Joe App Privacy issues have been detected in an official application of the Joe Biden campaign.The Vote Joe app uses relational organizing to allow users to share data about themselves and their contacts with a voter database run by Target Smart, a service claiming to have over 191 million voter records.  A user who syncs their contacts with the Vote Joe app will be presented with a corresponding voter entry from the Biden campaign's voter databas
  
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• 39% of Employees Access Corporate Data on Personal Devices

  14-09-2020 19:24
  39% of Employees Access Corporate Data on Personal Devices A large proportion of employees are using their own devices to access data belonging to their company, according to a new study by Trend Micro.Researchers found that 39% of workers use personal smartphones, tablets, and laptops to access corporate data, often via services and applications hosted in the cloud.The Head in the Clouds study, which surveyed more than 13,000 remote workers globally, found that many of the person
  
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• #GartnerSEC: Moving Towards an Explicit Zero Trust Model of Cybersecurity

  14-09-2020 19:10
  #GartnerSEC: Moving Towards an Explicit Zero Trust Model of CybersecurityThe notion of zero trust in cybersecurity is a misunderstood term, according to Neil MacDonald, VP and distinguished analyst at Gartner. Speaking during the Gartner Security and Risk Virtual Summit, MacDonald noted that extending trust is in fact necessary for organizations to work efficiently.The main issue is too much “implicit trust” in existing security practices that are based upon using physical location a
  
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• Cybersecurity Leaders Oppose Voatz

  14-09-2020 18:49
  Cybersecurity Leaders Oppose VoatzA plea by a blockchain voting company for the US Supreme Court to consider good-faith security researchers a threat to cybersecurity has been opposed by industry leaders. The plea was put forward by the company Voatz in the form of an amicus brief submitted to the court in Nathan Van Buren v. United States on September 3. Amicus briefs are legal documents filed in appellate court cases by non-litigants with a strong intere
  
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• #GartnerSEC: Top Projects for 2020 Include Authentication, Risk Management and Cloud

  14-09-2020 17:40
  #GartnerSEC: Top Projects for 2020 Include Authentication, Risk Management and CloudThe top security projects for 2020 and 2021 include focus on the cloud, authentication and risk.Speaking at the Gartner Security and Risk Virtual Summit, Gartner analyst Brian Reed said the initial forecast on projects had changed due to COVID-19, and have been constantly adjusted since then. “We can see that there are areas that have marked a considerable growth from a market standpoint and an an
  
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• #GartnerSEC: Professionals Survived #COVID19 as Businesses Relied on Security

  14-09-2020 15:15
  #GartnerSEC: Professionals Survived #COVID19 as Businesses Relied on Security The COVID-19 pandemic has presented an opportunity to create new security and risk professionals with “endless” opportunities.Those were the words of Jeffrey Wheatman, Gartner VP analyst, speaking in the opening keynote of the Gartner Security and Risk Virtual Summit.Wheatman explored how 2020 has turned out to be a challenging year and stated that the COVID-19 pandemic has “highlighted how uncertain
  
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• Oracle Slated for TikTok “Partner” Role

  14-09-2020 13:16
  Oracle Slated for TikTok “Partner” Role Oracle appears to be in the driving seat to secure a much-touted deal with TikTok-owner ByteDance, although as a partner rather than owner of the social app.Microsoft, which was the first to announce its intention to bid for the firm in early August and was later joined by Walmart, posted a brief statement on Sunday confirming it had not been successful.“ByteDance let us know today they would not be selling TikTok’s US operations to
  
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• Forensic Risk Alliance Appoints First Chief Innovation Officer

  14-09-2020 12:20
  Forensic Risk Alliance Appoints First Chief Innovation OfficerThe Forensic Risk Alliance (FRA) has today announced the appointment of Harsh Sutaria as its first chief innovation officer.The FRA is a forensic accounting, data governance, information management and compliance consultancy firm specializing in international corruption and fraud investigations.Sutaria brings almost 15 years of experience in information governance and delivering pre-sales, professional and consulting services to the n
  
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• Esper Says Artificial Intelligence Will Change the Battlefield

  14-09-2020 12:16 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkOne aspect of the return of great power competition is the race to develop artificial intelligence, Defense Secretary Dr. Mark T. Esper said at the virtual Joint Artificial...
  
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• Chinese investment in Australia plunges as tensions mount

  14-09-2020 11:41 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkChinese investment in Australia almost halved in 2019, new data released Monday showed, as relations between the two countries deteriorated. Researchers from the Australian...
  
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• Travel Sites Riddled with Hundreds of Vulnerabilities

  14-09-2020 11:32
  Travel Sites Riddled with Hundreds of VulnerabilitiesSecurity researchers have discovered hundreds of vulnerabilities across major hotel and airline and travel booking websites, some of which have already suffered major breaches.UK-based consumer rights group Which? and tech consultancy 6point6 studied 98 travel sector companies, probing websites, subdomains, employee portals and other web properties with lawful online tools.They found Marriott-owned websites were riddled with 497 bugs including
  
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• Misconfigured Database Leaks 370 Million Dating Site Records

  14-09-2020 10:30
  Misconfigured Database Leaks 370 Million Dating Site RecordsGlobal users of 70+ dating and e-commerce sites have had their personal data exposed after a popular marketing software provider misconfigured an online database.Discovered by an ethical hacker and reported to vpnMentor, the issue is an unsecured and unencrypted Elasticsearch database, managed by Cyprus-headquartered Mailfire.“The data was being stored on an Elasticsearch database, which is ordinarily not designed for URL use,&rdq
  
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• Saab Receives Order for Anti-ship Missiles from Germany

  14-09-2020 10:20 via defencetalk.com
  
  DefenceTalkDefenceTalkSaab has received an order from its German partner Diehl Defence for the RBS15 anti-ship missile for provision to the German Navy. The order value is approximately 1.7 BSEK with...
  
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