Liam Tung reports: Mozilla has rolled out a privacy protection it calls “Total Cookie Protection” as the default for the browser on Windows, Mac and Linux. The idea behind Total Cookie Protection is that cookies remain limited to the site from which they were added to a browser. Mozilla’s analogy for the functionality of Total…
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FBI Phoenix Field Office Warns of Increase in Sextortion Schemes Targeting Young Boys
From the Phoenix FBI, originally published June 14, 2022: PHOENIX, AZ—Now that schools across Arizona are on summer break and young people have more unsupervised time online, the FBI Phoenix Field Office is warning parents and caregivers about an increase in incidents involving sextortion of young children. Across the country, the FBI is receiving an…
China Issues Draft Guidelines on Certification of Personal Information Cross-Border Transfer Activities
Hunton Andrews Kurth writes: On April 29, 2022, the National Information Security Standardization Technical Committee of China issued a draft version of the Cybersecurity Standard Practice Guidelines – Technical Specification on Certification of Personal Information Cross-border Transfer Activities (the “Guidelines”). The public comment period for the Guidelines closed May 13, 2022. The Guidelines establish the…
FDNY seeks firewall to stop doxxing, hacking of rescue workers’ personal data and to protect patients’ data
Carl Campanile reports: The FDNY is seeking to build a digital firewall to protect the Big Apple’s thousands of rescue workers from cyberattacks, including “doxxing,” The Post has learned. The department recently put out a call in the City Record for consultant services “for the development and implementation of protective strategies to address the cyber…