Zoom has rolled out new security features and promised a cyber security and privacy makeover after withering reports of the platform’s failings. In the meantime, enterprises are left to wonder ‘to Zoom or not Zoom?’
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Spotlight Podcast: Beyond HIPAA – a Conversation with Nemours CPO Kevin Haynes
In this Spotlight edition of The Security Ledger podcast, sponsored by RSA Security, the Chief Privacy Officer at Nemours Healthcare, Kevin Haynes, joins us to talk about the fast evolving privacy demands on healthcare firms and how the Chief Privacy Officer role is evolving to address new privacy and security threats.
‘Alexa, Protect My Data’: Amazon Sends Private Voice Files to Unauthorized Customer
Amazon accidentally sent 1,700 private voice files to an unauthorized customer in Germany in response to a request for personal data. The data allowed a German magazine to identify and track down the person whose voice was recorded on the files, according to a published report.
Researchers: GDPR Already Having Positive Effect on Cybersecurity in EU
The General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) seems to already be having a positive effect on the state of cybersecurity in Europe less than seven months after it was enacted, showing that policy indeed can have a direct effect on organizations’ security practices, security researchers said.
Data Breach Exposes Records of 114 Million U.S. Citizens, Companies
A massive database holding more than 114 million records of U.S. citizens and companies was discovered sitting online unprotected due to misconfigured search, a data leak that is estimated to affect about 83 million people.
