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Cyber News Rundown: GDPR Edition

 

As the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) edges closer, we’re looking back on the five most significant stories during the lead up to its implementation. Read about GDPR’s impact on data security and find out how to get prepared with five steps to compliance.

 

 

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How do you secure the cloud? New data points a way

  

The march toward the cloud for data and services has many companies rethinking their approach to cyber security. Do they need a cloud security strategy? What is different about a cloud security strategy? Recent surveys have shed light on how security strategies are changing, and more important, how they should change.

 

See the full article here.

 

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Phishers Use New Method to Bypass Office 365 Safe Links

 

Cybercriminals have been using a new method to ensure that the URLs included in their phishing emails bypass the Safe Links security feature in Office 365, cloud security company Avanan revealed on Tuesday.

 

Safe Links, offered as part of Microsoft’s Office 365 Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) solution, is designed to protect organizations against malicious links delivered through emails and documents. Safe Links checks the original URL to see if it has been blacklisted (by Microsoft or the ATP customer) or if it points to malware. If a malicious element is detected, the original link is replaced and users are alerted when they click on it.

 

See the full article here.

 

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GDPR and the Webroot Community

 

Webroot has taken many steps to become compliant with the GDPR, which becomes effective on May 25th, 2018. As part of these efforts we are now providing users with greater control over their personal data on the Webroot Community.

 

See the full article here.

 

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The Base Link hack to get passed Office 365 phising protection seems like an outright bug in Micorsoft's code for checking for malicious links. Why would the sotware not check the entire URL as attached to the base link? That seems like a first grade computer science mistake to me. It seems it should be very easy to fix too. This should never have been a story sadly. 

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