Barely one month after the enforcement date of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, California passed its own landmark new data privacy legislation. Cisco Chief Privacy Officer Michelle Dennedy discusses this new law and what it says about the business value of data privacy.
Better, stronger fraud-detection intelligence - that's the promise of the new 3-D Secure 2.0 protocol for digital merchants, networks and financial institutions. But what should organizations do to prepare? James Jenkins of CA Technologies weighs in.
The Reserve Bank of India issued a notice to all cooperative banks advising them to apply caution while deploying third-party core banking applications and check for appropriate security standards. The move came after credential theft incidents at some banks. But will banks heed the advice?
Spear phishing attacks are in the news again following the Justice Department's indictment of Russian military intelligence officers for alleged attacks against U.S. politicians and county and state election boards. Here's how to play better phishing defense.
Medical testing laboratory firm LabCorp is still working to fully recover systems functionality nearly a week after a cyberattack that the company now claims involved "a new variant" of ransomware. What can other organizations do to avoid becoming the next victim?
Despite having the Information Technology Act, which covers aspects of privacy, India needs a separate privacy law along the lines of the EU's General Data Protection Act, argues cyber lawyer Vaishali Bhagwat.
This edition of the ISMG Security Report includes an analysis by Executive Editor Matthew J. Schwartz on President Donald Trump's changing views on election meddling, plus an update on voter data being accidently exposed by a robocalling company.
RoboCent, a company that specializes in robocalling voters, left nearly 3,000 files containing detailed data about Virginia voters online by mistake. The data has been secured, but the incident points again to ongoing problems of security misconfigurations in repositories and lack of end-to-end encryption.
A ministry of agriculture website in India lacks basic security measures, risking exposing personal data of millions of farmers who use the site to obtain crop insurance, a security practitioner who uses the site has pointed out.
Silicon Valley employees are increasingly calling on executives to restrict the use of facial recognition technology, mobilized in part by the U.S. government's previous policy of separating children from parents at the border. Experts say facial recognition regulations are needed - and quickly.
Asked in a press conference if he would denounce Russia for interfering in U.S. elections, President Trump responded with a conspiracy theory about a missing DNC server. Some security experts say Trump's response was nonsense and flies in the face of good digital forensics and incident response practice.
Medical laboratory testing firm LabCorp is investigating a weekend cyberattack on its IT network, which resulted in the company taking certain processes offline. The attack is just the latest cyber assault on the healthcare sector.
"We are living in difficult times ... when the government data is the most vulnerable," says Jayesh Ranjan, principal secretary-IT, electronics and communications & industries and commerce, government of Telangana. He calls for creating "a strong institutional mechanism" to tackle threats.
The finance ministry has proposed relaxing a directive from the Reserve Bank of India, the nation's central bank, that requires certain foreign payment-related firms to store local data in India.
Our website uses cookies. Cookies enable us to provide the best experience possible and help us understand how visitors use our website. By browsing inforisktoday.asia, you agree to our use of cookies.
