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New Variant of Emotent Spam Targets Bank Credentials: Microsoft

A spam campaign using a new variant of Win32/Emotet against German-language speakers targets bank credentials, Microsoft Malware Protection Center announced this week. Microsoft has been monitoring the variant since November, when a spam email campaign it was used in peaked. Continue reading

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Data Loss Causes Companies to Hemorrhage $1.7 Trillion Per Year: Report

During the last two years, companies have lost 400 percent more data. This loss of data and downtime cost businesses over $1.7 trillion dollars, according to the EMC Global Data Protection Index released Tuesday. This loss could be prevented with better IT strategies. At this point, most companies are poorly… Continue reading

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EU Regulators Want Right to Be Forgotten to Extend Beyond European Borders

Long-awaited guidelines for how search engine operators in the EU should handle the European Court of Justice May decision regarding the right to be forgotten were released this week. The resulting decision was released Tuesday by the Article 29 Data Protection Working Party. The committee interpreted the court ruling to… Continue reading

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Only 1% of Cloud Providers Comply with Proposed European Data Protection Rules

A proposed European Union regulation known as The EU General Data Protection Regulation, which is expected to be passed this year, could change how organizations treat the privacy of personal data. However, very few cloud service providers are able to currently meet these regulations which are likely to come into effect in 2015. Continue reading

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Italy Gives Google 18 Months to Comply with User Privacy Regulations

Google has 18 months to change the way it treats user data in Italy in order to meet privacy regulations in the country. The Italian Data Protection Authority (IDPA), based in Rome, told Google that it has to ask users for their prior consent to use personal data. Continue reading

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