The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) has been law for quite some time, but new federal data breach and compromise notification requirements went into effect November 1st, 2018. PIPEDA applies to all organizations that are federally regulated and fall under legislative authority of the Parliament of Canada, along
Growing in recent years has been consumers distrust in the methods companies have been gathering, using, and sharing their information. With major laws surrounding ePrivacy being implemented there are a few major trends emerging. On June 18th 2018, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) was enacted with a plan to come in affect
With 78 percent of businesses that utilize Office 365 reporting one or more successful cyberattacks this year, it’s not surprising that IT managers at over half of Office 365-enabled organizations also say they’ve increased their security spending by a robust average 18 percent compared to 2017. In a survey by
Phishing emails targeting Office 365 customers are increasing dramatically and are the top source of security breaches, according to a new Osterman Research survey commissioned by Cyren. Fifty-four percent of organizations using Office 365 as their corporate email platform reported at least one successful phishing attack during the past 12
It gets earlier and earlier. The first Yuletide-related malware campaign has already been spotted. There’s always an expected and monumental amount of consumer spam and phishing in the run-up to Black Friday and then Christmas itself, but we’ve found one malware author getting into the Christmas “spirit” in late October
Is Cannabis Finally the Driver for Personal Privacy? As part of our announcement ( https://www.otcmarkets.com/stock/LDSR/news/LandStar-Inc-Announces-HIPAA-Compliant-Platform-for-8-Billion-Medical-Marijuana-Market ) Our partner offering has been in development for a specific governmental organization in Canada for some time now and recently went live with the legalization on October 17. The offering has several components – however at
Today we came across an e-mail with an Excel Workbook attachment, which upon first inspection appears to be password-protected. The presence of the EncryptedPackage stream in an OLE2 document indicates that it is protected by a password, which obviously would require the user to enter one in order to open
BY JASON REMILLARD THIS WEEK WE RELEASED ANOTHER UPGRADE TO OUR MOST RECENT PRODUCT CAPABILITY – THE WORDPRESS GDPR FRAMEWORK. Hey everyone – just a quick update (if you haven’t already been notified by your WordPress console yet) that we have pushed out version 1.0.18. Although the feature list looks small
In a sophisticated criminal scheme, an email impersonating the Icelandic police was sent to thousands of Icelanders this past weekend, falsely requesting the recipient come in for questioning. Since it directly involved impersonating the authorities, who say this is the largest cyberattack to hit the country of Iceland, and included
The third annual Cyren-Osterman Research U.S. security survey shows a significant increase in phishing emails getting through to users and in the number of successful phishing attacks suffered by businesses during the past 12 months, among many topics covered in the 16-page report, “IT Security at SMBs: 2017 Benchmarking Survey,”
