The Personal Data Protection Law stopped being a reading exercise some time ago. The general compliance grace period ended on 14 September 2024, and the Implementing Regulations and the Transfer Regulation are in force. They
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On the radar this week
- CRITICAL Volt Typhoon hides zero-day attacks using 'Silent Train' framework
- CRITICAL Apple backports CoreGraphics zero-day patches to older iPhones
- HIGH Adobe Commerce and Magento: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type
- HIGH Google Brotli: Unchecked Return Value
- CRITICAL CISA confirms PHP2Shell vulnerabilities now exploited in attacks
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Understanding and Utilizing PGP Encryption
July 14, 2023 Uncategorized
PGP (Pretty Good Privacy) started as Phil Zimmermann’s 1991 program for encrypting and decrypting data. What practitioners use today is OpenPGP, the interoperable standard behind tools such as GnuPG (RFC 9580, published July 2024, is
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Understanding VPN Encryption
April 14, 2023 Uncategorized
A VPN builds a private network on top of a public internet connection. Encryption is what makes it private, and it is the part almost nobody looks at when choosing a provider. What VPN encryption
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UNDERSTANDING SSL ENCRYPTION
March 31, 2023 Uncategorized
Data breaches and cyber-attacks are common enough now that secure communication over the internet is not something a site can treat as optional. SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) encryption is how that gets handled. What is
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Unraveling the Mystery of Cryptography
March 10, 2023 Uncategorized
Your personal, financial and business information crosses the internet constantly. Cryptography is what keeps it from being readable on the way. The mechanics are simpler than the vocabulary makes them sound. What is cryptography? Say
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