Category: Blog

What Does Personal Information (PI) Mean Under CCPA

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is set to be indoctrinated on January 1st, 2020, and will change the consumer privacy landscape across the United States of America. Largely inspired by the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR), the CCPA is very similar in its quest to move control of consumer data back

Why CCPA Needs Workflow

Its January 1st and your first 5 CCPA SAR’s just came in from data; how do you turn this around? What does it look like? The answer is Workflows.  We learned with GDPR that DSAR’s need to be handled correctly, or there are massive consequences, that much is obvious. But

CCPA – Opportunities For Success

The data governance landscape is rapidly changing across the United States every day – and on January 1st, 2020, a law that aims to provide consumers with more control and power over their personal information will be enacted. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) will change how business is done in the

Exploiting CAPTCHA: The Latest Evasive Phishing Tactic

The Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHA) has been used in commercial applications since the early 2000s. As its name suggests, it is a mechanism for ascertaining that a real human is performing an action at a web site. CAPTCHA is generated by distorting

Suspected BEC Campaign Targeting Banks

In the past week we’ve been receiving reports of different—but seemingly related—email malware campaigns targeting banks in both the US and Europe, specifically in the form of Excel Workbooks containing a malicious macro being sent as an attachment to emails. What’s interesting is that even though the email themes used

CCPA vs. GDPR

Do you know how the California Consumer Privacy Act stacks up to Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation?

Is The Email Security Industry About To Lose Another Major Vendor?

Symantec’s acquisition by Broadcom, announced recently, represents yet another major change for this cyber security vendor and service provider. Given the explicitly stated intention to focus only on the largest 2000 organisations globally, only time will tell what the impact will be on its smaller enterprise and mid-market customers.  For

Der Anstieg des „Evasive“ Phishing durch Phishing-as-a-Service!

Phishing-as-a-Service stellt benutzerfreundliche Phishing-Angriffstools und sogar vollständige Kampagnen zu günstigen Preisen zur Verfügung. Je nach Service-Level kostet ein Full-Service-Abonnement im Bereich von 50 bis 80 US-Dollar pro Monat und realistische Phishing-Web Kits stehen für nur 50 US-Dollar zum Download bereit. Das Cyren-Forschungslabor hat in diesem Jahr bereits 5.334 neue, einzigartige

Open Source Ransomware Targets Fortnite Users

The global gaming phenomenon Fortnite has a huge global user base – last reported in March at 250 million gamers – and the just-concluded Fortnite World Cup with its $30 million prize pool and an online viewing audience of over two million has certainly only added to its allure. Over