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Your LEANmade Digest No. 112 – Cyber breach: Unauthorized transactions approved without users’ 2FA authentication
What happened? 'Crypto.com acknowledged that it had lost $34.65 million worth of cash, Bitcoin and Ethereum after getting ransacked in an attack that slipped fat transactions past two-factor authentication (2FA).' 'The exchange plans to release additional end-user...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 112 – Cyber breach: Unauthorized transactions approved without users’ 2FA authentication
What happened? 'Crypto.com acknowledged that it had lost $34.65 million worth of cash, Bitcoin and Ethereum after getting ransacked in an attack that slipped fat transactions past two-factor authentication (2FA).' 'The exchange plans to release additional end-user...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 110 – Your DNA will soon be on file, if it’s not already. What will the consequences be?
DNA, Data Privacy, and You Your DNA will soon be on file, if it’s not already. What will the consequences be? 'There’s an undeniable benefit to using DNA tech in our lives. Not only is it effective for our justice systems, but it can also improve our...
Ihr LEANmade Digest Nr. 105: EU-Mitgliedsstaaten wollen Generalschlüssel für Verschlüsslung, wichtige Handlungsfelder im Digitalisierungsplan und die leise Poesie der IT-Sicherheit
EU-Mitgliedsstaaten wollen Generalschlüssel für Verschlüsslung (IT-Business) 'Mitte Dezember haben die Innenminister der EU-Mitgliedsstaaten die umstrittene Resolution zur „Sicherheit durch Verschlüsselung und Sicherheit trotz Verschlüsselung“ ohne weitere Aussprache...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 111 – The Rising Consumer Demand for Data Privacy and Autonomy
Why now?? 'The movement of all communications — including private communication — online during the COVID-19 pandemic helped open the public’s eyes to digital privacy. Consumers started to demand more out of the companies they would share their data with.'...
Ihr LEANmade Digest Nr. 99: Neue HWZ Fachstelle «Datenschutz & Compliance», Multi Cloud wird zum Vorreiter einer offenen IT-Welt und Können wir mit digitalen Doppelgängern bald Geld verdienen?
Neue Fachstelle «Datenschutz & Compliance» - HWZ 'Im Herbst 2020 hat die HWZ die Fachstelle Datenschutz & Compliance lanciert, um die beiden Themen aktiv am Bildungsmarkt zu positionieren. Fachstellenleiter David Wicki-Birchler erläutert im Interview, weshalb...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 106 – What happens when our faces are tracked everywhere, A.I.’s most important dataset gets a privacy overhaul, and how to secure data privacy in genomics research
What Happens When Our Faces Are Tracked Everywhere We Go? (New York Times) A long-read on Clearview.AI and similar companies that push (and cross) the boundaries of privacy and ethics: 'The more society-changing aspect of facial recognition may be how...
Ihr LEANmade Digest Nr. 112 – Datenschutztrends 2022
(Bild: lassedesignen - stock.adobe.com) IT-Trends 2022 '2022 steigen die Herausforderungen an den Datenschutz in Unternehmen weiter an. Der Grund: Unternehmen speichern immer mehr Daten in lokalen, cloudbasierten und hybriden Systemen sowie in Netzen von...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 104: Why Trust has become the most important Asset, and Digital Identity as critical national Infrastructure
Book Excerpt: Why trust, not data, has become the most important asset in the modern economy (GeekWire) Stein Broeder: 'My research has shown that trust is the most important asset for a company, even more important than data. Trust is the currency, and...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 103: a Store without Staff selling Phones using Facial Recognition, ‘Augmented creativity’, and DeepMind’s brain: the shape of things to come
T-Factory Is a Store Without Staff Selling Smartphones Using Facial Recognition (PCMAG) 'In South Korea a new store is opening that goes a step further and has no staff at all and never closes. The new store is called T Factory and it has been created by...
Ihr LEANmade Digest Nr. 90: Aus Ro-bots werden Co-bots, und Social-Engineering: die beliebtesten Tricks der Angreifer.
Industrie 5.0: Der Mensch kehrt zurück (IT-Business)Aus Robots werden Cobots: 'nach den Ergebnissen einer aktuellen Studie von BIS Research wird der weltweite Markt für Cobots voraussichtlich von 580 Mio. US-Dollar im Jahr 2018 auf unglaubliche 9 Mrd....
Your LEANmade Digest No. 100: WFA Trend Intensifying Ethics and Compliance Issues, and Solid (by Berners-Lee) takes 1st step
Work From Anywhere Trend Intensifying Ethics, And Compliance Issues (Forbes) 'While the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the trend towards Work From Anywhere, much more needs to be accomplished to address the ethics and compliance issues endemic in this...