Security News

TransArmor Personal Data Protection from Fiserv tokenizes and encrypts personal data
2020-04-09 01:30

TransArmor Personal Data Protection from Fiserv, which incorporates industry-leading data security technology from Protegrity, helps businesses secure consumers' personal data. For the first time, when used alongside TransArmor Data Protection, Fiserv merchants will be able to tokenize and encrypt all payment card data and personal information throughout the entire customer and transaction lifecycle.

Encryption is finally being used primarily to protect personal data rather than just for compliance
2020-04-08 04:00

Traditionally compliance with regulations was the top driver for deploying encryption, but has dropped in priority since 2017, indicating that encryption is transitioning from a requirement to a proactive choice to safeguard critical information. With the proliferation of data from digital initiatives, cloud use, mobility, IoT devices and the advent of 5G networks, data discovery continues to be the biggest challenge in planning and executing a data encryption strategy, with 67% of respondents citing this as their top concern.

Personal data protection today: We should demand more
2020-03-23 05:30

From Marriott to Facebook, the biggest data breaches in 2019 were the result of careless handling of customer data. IBM's 2019 Cost of a Data Breach Report found that data breaches on average cost organizations $3.92 million per incident.

McAfee extends partnership with Samsung to protect consumers’ personal data and information
2020-02-14 01:45

McAfee announced its extension of the long-standing partnership with Samsung to protect consumers' personal data and information from online threats. In addition to mobile, the partnership expands to better protect Samsung PCs and laptops users, where it matters.

App Used by Israel's Ruling Party Leaked Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters
2020-02-11 12:53

An election campaigning website operated by Likud―the ruling political party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu―inadvertently exposed personal information of all 6.5 million eligible Israeli voters on the Internet, just three weeks before the country is going to have a legislative election. In Israel, all political parties receive personal details of voters before the election, which they can't share with any third party and are responsible for protecting the privacy of their citizens and erasing it after the elections are over.

App Used by Israel's Ruling Party Leaked Personal Data of All 6.5 Million Voters
2020-02-11 04:54

An election campaigning website operated by Likud―the ruling political party of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu―inadvertently exposed personal information of all 6.5 million eligible Israeli voters on the Internet, just three weeks before the country is going to have a legislative election. In Israel, all political parties receive personal details of voters before the election, which they can't share with any third party and are responsible for protecting the privacy of their citizens and erasing it after the elections are over.

Exploring the proper use of pseudonymisation related to personal data
2019-12-06 05:00

In the light of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the challenge of proper application of pseudonymisation to personal data is gradually becoming a highly debated topic in many...

New Legislation Would Block US Firms From Storing Personal Data in China, Russia
2019-11-20 20:52

New legislation introduced this week aims to put a stop to the flow of Americans’ sensitive personal data to countries that threaten national security.  read more

UniCredit says personal data of 3 million customers was compromised
2019-10-28 14:04

Italian global banking and financial services giant UniCredit has announced that its cybersecurity team has identified “a data incident” that resulted in the compromise of personal data of 3...

DoorDash Breach Exposes 4.9 Million Users' Personal Data
2019-09-27 09:18

Do you use DoorDash frequently to order your food online? If yes, you are highly recommended to change your account password right now immediately. DoorDash—the popular on-demand food-delivery...