Temasec data protection Archives

Category Archives: data protection

The Problem with Treating Data as a Commodity

February 26 2021 By Bruce Schneier in data protection, Privacy, reports, Security

Excellent Brookings paper: “Why data ownership is the wrong approach to protecting privacy.”

From the introduction:

Treating data like it is property fails to recognize either the value that varieties...
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Virginia Data Privacy Law

February 18 2021 By Bruce Schneier in data protection, Privacy, Security

Virginia is about to get a data privacy law, modeled on California’s law.

NoxPlayer Android Emulator Supply-Chain Attack

February 8 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Android, data protection, Malware, Security

It seems to be the season of sophisticated supply-chain attacks.

This one is in the NoxPlayer Android emulator:

ESET says that based on evidence its researchers gathered, a threat...
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Extracting Personal Information from Large Language Models Like GPT-2

January 7 2021 By Bruce Schneier in Cryptography, cybersecurity, data protection, Security

Researchers have been able to find all sorts of personal information within GPT-2. This information was part of the training data, and can be extracted with the right sorts...

Backdoor in Zyxel Firewalls and Gateways

January 6 2021 By Bruce Schneier in data protection, Security

This is bad:

More than 100,000 Zyxel firewalls, VPN gateways, and access point controllers contain a hardcoded admin-level backdoor account that can grant attackers root access to devices via...
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