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What is the EU General Data Protection Regulation?

It’s been a long time coming, but the new EU data security and privacy law, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is close to being finalised. We’ve been tracking the GDPR through all its ups and downs over the last two years, as it progressed through the EU legislative process. At this point there are two versions of the GDPR, one from the Council and the other from the Parliament. The stakeholders are now working out the final language. You can read this post from our friends at the IAPP to learn about the latest compromises. If all goes to plan, an agreement is expected to be reached by the end of the year.

: ANDY GREEN, TECHNICAL SPECIALIST, VARONIS; Viewpoints; Posted On Monday, 11 January 2016 05:35

Malvertising campaign uses free certificate from Let’s Encrypt

A malvertising campaign has been using a free digital certificate it acquired from certificate authority, Let’s Encrypt. The cybercriminals had compromised a legitimate website and set up a subdomain that led to a server under their control, wrote Joseph Chen, a fraud researcher with Trend.

: SECURITY EXPERT; Talking Point; Posted On Friday, 08 January 2016 11:57

Ukraine power grid outage...Russian hackers to blame?

The CIA is looking into whether Russian Hackers were to blame for the cyber attack on the Ukrainian power grid. Experts say this is a first of a kind and may be a bad omen for attacks on other power grids around the world including our own.

: SECURITY EXPERT; Talking Point; Posted On Friday, 08 January 2016 11:52

Flawed EZCast media streamer let hackers run malware home network

Graham Cluley is reporting that researchers have uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in the TV-streaming EZCast device that can lead to remote code execution, and point to more general weaknesses in Internet of Things (IoT) security.