The creation of the European Data Protection Day dates back to 2006, when the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe established an annual day dedicated to this right in commemoration of the anniversary of the signing of Convention 108, the cornerstone of data protection. in Europe in the quest to strengthen people’s control over their data and make it easier for companies to jump into the digital economy by harmonizing the level of protection throughout the EU.
We start this week’s MuySeguridad Recaps remembering the importance of this day and how this sensitive matter directly affects citizens and companies. We also tell you what is happening on Twitter, which in recent weeks has been changing some key executives of the multinational, in a movement that has fully affected the hard core of platform security.
We also give an account of what has been the largest DDoS attack to date and how Microsoft explains that these types of attacks are increasingly complex, spreading at full speed. Let’s start!
The European Data Protection Day is still as necessary as in 2006
The European Commission, the Council of Europe and the national Data Protection authorities proposed in 2006 that the European Data Protection Day be celebrated every January 28. A means to promote greater knowledge among citizens and companies about the rights and responsibilities in this matter and in general to raise awareness of the need to maintain a degree of effective personal and business security in this complicated virtual world.
Twitter fires its CISO and chief security officer
Following Jack Dorsey’s departure from Twitter a few weeks ago, two other key executives have just announced they are leaving the most popular microblogging platform. In this case, we are talking about Peiter Zatko, the company’s director of security, and Rinki Sethi, the platform’s CISO.
3.47 terabits per second: this has been the largest DDoS attack in history
Although DDoS attacks may seem “rudimentary” and without an obvious economic benefit (obvious is the key word here), the truth is that the groups that organize themselves to carry out these types of attacks are not only getting bigger , but in recent months they have been demonstrating the extent to which their actions can affect the entire Network.
GPU footprint, other means of tracking
Most likely, when reading GPU Footprint, you have thought about the browser footprint, a serious threat to privacy that we already told you about some time ago, and that shows us the enormous amount of information that we can provide. to a web server when we establish a connection with it. And this is an issue that we should pay close attention to, as it is poised to become a major privacy threat.
MoonBounce: a new bootkit signed by APT41
Although fortunately the bootkit ecosystem is not overly populated, The appearance of new threats like MoonBounce is undoubtedly bad news, as this type of threat is particularly persistent. In case you don’t know what it is, a bootkit is a kind of rootkit that is installed in the system startup process, which gives you full control of the system from the very start, even before the operating system loads.
Are password managers secure?
Today there is no simple answer to the question stated in the title of this article. Different news related to the different password managers have recently been known, which we will detail below. But, first of all, it is necessary to put in context and explain what a password manager is.
Dark Souls III has a problem, and it’s very serious
Although not much information has been revealed about it, what we know at the moment is that a security flaw in the online mode of Dark Souls 3 would allow a potential attacker, when interacting in the online mode of this well-known game with his victim, the remote execution of arbitrary code on its system, which could even lead it to take control of it.
