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New England Safety Partners works with Luminoso Technologies, Inc. on SOC2 certification

August 2, 2022
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For Immediate Release 2 August 2022 Luminoso receives a SOC 2 Type 2 Newton, MA – New England Safety Partners (NESP), an Information Security Consulting firm specializing in compliance frameworks, cloud security, and business process analysis and implementation today announced that it has helped Luminoso Technologies, Inc. (Luminoso) successfully complete the Service Organization Control (SOC) […]

Surveillance of Your Car

August 2, 2022
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TheMarkup has an extensive analysis of connected vehicle data and the companies that are collecting it.
The Markup has identified 37 companies that are part of the rapidly growing connected vehicle data industry that seeks to monetize such data in an e…

Bill McCarthy joins NESP!

August 1, 2022
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Bill is a graduate of Kent State University and has been in an executive service or support role for his entire career, with experience spanning multiple industries, from service organizations to manufacturing. In these roles, he has through numerous audits, including ISO 9001, PCI, SAS70, SSAE 16 & 18, as well as worked with large […]

Ring Gives Videos to Police without a Warrant or User Consent

August 1, 2022
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Amazon has revealed that it gives police videos from its Ring doorbells without a warrant and without user consent.

Ring recently revealed how often the answer to that question has been yes. The Amazon company responded to an inquiry from US Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.), confirming that there have been 11 cases in 2022 where Ring complied with police “emergency” requests. In each case, Ring handed over private recordings, including video and audio, without letting users know that police had access to—and potentially downloaded—their data. This raises many concerns about increased police reliance on private surveillance, a practice that has long gone unregulated…

CISA Releases Log4Shell-Related MAR

July 28, 2022
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Original release date: July 28, 2022From May through June 2022, CISA responded to an organization that was compromised by an exploitation of an unpatched and unmitigated Log4Shell vulnerability in a VMware Horizon server. CISA analyzed five malware sam…

Samba Releases Security Updates

July 27, 2022
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Original release date: July 27, 2022 | Last revised: July 28, 2022The Samba Team has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Samba. An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affect…