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Email Security FAQs Answered by Guardian Digital - With email-related attacks becoming increasingly prevalent and serious, effectively securing your email accounts is more important than ever before.

  Facebook Exposes Nonprofits to Donors--and Hackers (Dec 4)
 

As the founder and director of a nonprofit animal shelter on the East Coast, Alana has spent most of the past decade caring for pets that might otherwise be euthanized. Her work also resonates with people online--the Facebook page for the shelter has more than 1.3 million followers.
  Marriott sued hours after announcing data breach (Dec 3)
 

Hours after announcing a data breach on Friday, two Oregon men sued international hotel chain Marriott for exposing their data. Their lawsuit was followed hours later by another one filed in the state of Maryland.
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Marriott, you're bringing us down. On Friday, the hotel giant disclosed that up to 500 million Starwoods guests had their personal information stolen, including passport numbers for many.
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Before the internet era, geopolitical tensions drove traditional espionage, and periodically erupted into warfare. Nowadays, cyberspace not only houses a treasure-trove of commercially and politically sensitive information, but can also provide access to control systems for critical civil and military infrastructure.
  Coalition and Labor strike deal on encryption legislation (Dec 4)
 

New national security laws dealing with encrypted communications are likely to pass Parliament by the end of the week, as Labor and the government have come to an in-principle agreement on key parts of the Bill after a series of concessions from the Coalition.
  Quora hack leaves details of 100 million accounts exposed (Dec 4)
 

It's not a site that I use often, but I woke up this morning to discover that overnight I had received two emails from Quora.
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Researchers have found evidence that the UPnProxy router compromise uncovered earlier in 2018 is now being used to attack computers on networks connected to the same gateways.
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The Ukrainian authorities claim to have blocked a major cyber-attack by Russia targeting the country's judiciary.
  #BHEU: How Google Aurora Attacks Changed the Consciousness of Cybersecurity (Dec 5)
 

Opening the Black Hat Europe conference, founder Jeff Moss cited the 2010 attacks on Google as a point where attacks became more serious, as this enabled people in cybersecurity to "speak to a new audience."
  (Dec 8)
 

Hopefully you can set aside some time this weekend to upgrade to Linux 4.19.8 as there's the BLK-MQ fix in place for the recent "EXT4 corruption issue" that was plaguing many users of Linux 4.19.
  GDPR Implementation Slow but Improving (Dec 8)
 

According to the EU GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) Implementation Review Survey conducted by IT Governance, six months after the GDPR went into effect, the majority of organizations are failing to implement the mandatory regulations.
  (Dec 7)
 

An estimated 500 million Marriott International customers had their information stolen by hackers sometime within the last four years. But almost a week after the company disclosed that theft, many of those victims are still waiting from an official acknowledgement from the company that their information was stolen.