In response to the FTC’s recent announcement of its intent to study security update practices within the mobile industry, Cesare Garlati, Chief Security Strategist of the prpl Foundation, former Vice President of mobile security at Trend Micro, and current co-chair of the Cloud Security Alliance Mobile Working Group, expressed a degree of frustration with the scope of project.
LONDON, UK: Tempest Security Intelligence has announced an expanded presence in the United Kingdom. Raising £5.5 million (R$28.2 million), Tempest will be increasing its employees to 160 across its London and Brazillian offices in order to better meet the demands from the Financial, Media, Telecom and E-Commerce sectors that need Cybersecurity expertise.
A group of researchers has released a data set on nearly 70,000 users of online dating site, OkCupid. The information was collected by Danish researchers who never contacted OkCupid, or its clientele, about using it.
Commenting on this, Rob Sobers, director at Varonis, said: "We have to live under the assumption that, if we make data public, it can and will be scraped and collected and archived permanently. The profile data is public, so technically this is not a hack or a breach. Anyone could easily get their hands on any individual user profile that is in the dump. However, what the researchers did was compile it all into one big structured data set, which makes it easy for both good guys and bad guys to analyse.
London, UK: Nok Nok Labs has published a White Paper from PwC Legal comparing key privacy implications of on-device and on-server matching of biometric data.
For organisations considering biometrics as they move away from reliance on usernames and passwords, the report highlights why device-side matching of biometric data is a compelling approach to satisfy key privacy requirements on cross-border personal data transfers, as well as providing the benefits of individual choice and control around such personal data.
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