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Defending Against COVID-19 Cyber Scams

I personally did not see a scam like this yet, so I quote here the CISA Newsletter. Source: National Cyber Awareness System:   Defending Against COVID-19 Cyber Scams 03/06/2020 01:53 PM EST Original release date: March 6, 2020 The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warns individuals to remain vigilant for scams related to Coronavirus […]

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ISO27001 and GDPR

We are talking about Article 32 of GDPR: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-32-gdpr/ It basically says that you should have some measures in place in order to protect customer data by reducing the risk of a customer data to be lost or stolen(through a data breach, through classical theft, losing drives, making information public unintentionally an so on).   […]

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Economic Impact of Cybercrime— up to $600 billion (McAfee report)

Source: https://www.mcafee.com/us/resources/reports/restricted/economic-impact-cybercrime.pdf In 2014, taking into account the full range of costs, CSIS estimated that cybercrime cost the world between $345 billion and $445 billion. As a percentage of global GDP, cybercrime cost the global economy 0.62% of GDP in 2014. Using the same methods, CSIS now believe the range is now between $445 billion and $600 billion. Our […]