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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...
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.'...
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...
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...
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...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 97: Rethinking risk and compliance for the Age of AI, Online Test Monitoring, and GDPR and Artificial Intelligence
Rethinking risk and compliance for the Age of AI (World Economic Forum) '... early experience shows that AI can create new types of risks for businesses. In hiring and credit, AI may amplify historical bias against female and minority background...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 96: rise in remote MacOS workers, paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers, cybersecurity risks in M&A and profitable ethics and compliance programs
Rise in Remote MacOS Workers Driving Cybersecurity 'Rethink' (Dark Reading) '"When this settles out, a large group of users are not coming back to the office ever," he says. "What we have to think in terms of is hardened users and hardened user practices...
International Cyber Security Law Review – Springer 9/2020
In the News. Our General Counsel, Dr. David Wicki, LL.M. reviewed two legal frameworks designed to curb cybercrime. Published in International Cyber Security Law Review 9/2020 (Springer) The Budapest Convention and the General Data Protection Regulation: acting in...
Your LEANmade Digest No. 95: No quick fix for transatlantic data transfers, 1,200 phishing attacks each month, and the weird future of quantum networks
No quick fix for transatlantic data transfers, says EC (TechCrunch) 'Europe’s justice commissioner has conceded there will be “no quick fix” for EU-US data transfers in the wake of the decision by the region’s top court in July that struck down a flagship...