Managed Security Programs: Specialized vs. Generic

Considering a Managed Service Program for Data Loss Prevention? Learn the difference between legacy MSSP and Digital Guardian's MSP, and determine which tasks need to be managed in-house and which tasks need to be outsourced.

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Mozilla Fixes Critical Flaws, Adds Have I Been Pwned Integration in Firefox

The latest version of Firefox includes a new feature that integrates Have I Been Pwned, a service by security expert Troy Hunt that alerts users if their credentials have been compromised.

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Email Mistake at Chicago Schools Underscores Employee Negligence Problem

An employee at Chicago Public Schools accidentally emailed sensitive personally identifiable information (PII) belonging to students to thousands of families earlier this month.

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Tesla Data Theft Case Illustrates the Danger of the Insider Threat

Tesla filed a lawsuit against a former employee this week after it learned he made changes to company source code and exported gigabytes of proprietary data to unknown third parties.

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Expanding Digital Guardian’s Best in Class Data Visibility for Information Security Professionals

Digital Guardian was founded to protect intellectual property on the endpoint from purposeful theft or accidental loss. Since then we have significantly expanded that mission to include cloud inspection, network inspection, EDR, and UEBA, but the deep visibility into system, user and data events continues to be a reason why many organizations deploy Digital Guardian.

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74 Arrested in FBI, DOJ BEC Scam Takedown

74 individuals were arrested over the last two weeks for their role in Operation Wire Wire, a law enforcement effort carried out by the FBI to disrupt a multi-million dollar business email compromise (BEC) scam campaign.

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FTC Investigating How DNA Testing Firms Protect User Data

It appears the FTC has obliged U.S. officials and begun investigating the data security practices of DNA testing companies like 23andMe and Ancestry.com.

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New Abilities, Targets of VPNFilter Malware Disclosed

Researchers warned Wednesday that VPNFilter, the strain of potentially destructive malware uncovered last week, can infect more devices than previously thought. It also has the ability to intercept network traffic and deliver malicious payloads via a man-in-the-middle attack.

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Email Addresses of 92 Million Users Spilled in MyHeritage Breach

The genealogy site MyHeritage said Monday that it suffered a breach last year that exposed 92 million of its users emails and hashed passwords.

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Regulation May Be Coming for IoT Security

The Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) urged the government's Consumer Product Safety Commission to regulate IoT products in a letter this week.

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