John Battelle's Searchblog

JANUARY 3, 2012

I’ve done this a few times in the past, and this year I’m feeling the need to review all I wrote in 2011, and highlight the best posts (at least, by my own measure). Do We Trust The Government With The Internet? Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights Tons of data on government as a percentage of GDP, etc.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 20, 2023

Once dubbed “the world’s most wanted hacker” after his youthful exploits attacking Digital Equipment Corporation and Pacific Bell, Mitnick completed his decade-long transition to cybersecurity luminary when he joined KnowBe4 as Chief Hacking Officer and part owner in 2011. Mitnick’s Legacy The U.S.

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Cybersecurity Education Military Government 98

Hunton Privacy

MAY 31, 2022

In a complaint filed in federal court, the government alleged that Twitter violated both the FTC Act and a 2011 FTC Order by misrepresenting the extent to which the company maintained and protected users’ nonpublic contact information.

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Privacy Information Security Data Privacy Compliance 99

ARMA International

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v] This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. A Documentary Approach.

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IT Governance

APRIL 5, 2018

Faced with these increasing information security threats, organisations have an urgent need to adopt IT governance best practice strategies. What is IT governance? By asking yourself if your IT investments aligns with your business objectives, you will be able to gauge the adequacy of your current IT governance arrangements.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Security experts from FireEye found evidence that links the development of the Triton malware (aka Trisis and HatMan) to a Russian government research institute. a Russian government-owned technical research institution located in Moscow. The following factors supporting this assessment are further detailed in this post.”

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2011

On June 7, 2011, the Congress of the Republic of Peru passed the Personal Data Protection Law ( Ley de Protección de Datos Personales, Proyecto de Ley 4079/2009-PE). View a copy of the Personal Data Protection Law (in Spanish) as passed on June 7, 2011. Require consent for the processing of personal data.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 18, 2023

The campaign was launched to protest against the Government’s plan to release the treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. The hacker collective Anonymous has launched cyberattacks against nuclear power-linked groups in Japan as part of an operation called #OpFukushima. ” reported the Japan Times.

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ChiefTech

MAY 29, 2013

I first got involved with the Government 2.0 This does not mean that Government 2.0 Cloud-computing is firmly on the agenda in federal and state government (although not necessarily always in a way that suits the dominate cloud-computing vendors ). At the same time, I also see a natural fragmentation as Government 2.0

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2021

US DoJ indicted four members of the China-linked cyberespionage group known as APT40 for hacking various entities between 2011 and 2018. The APT40 group has been active since at least 2013 and appears to be focused on supporting naval modernization efforts of the Government of Beijing.

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IG Guru

JUNE 7, 2022

FTC and DOJ Order Twitter to Pay $150 Million Penalty for Violating 2011 FTC Order and Cease Profiting from Deceptively Collected Data. The post FTC Charges Twitter with Deceptively Using Account Security Data to Sell Targeted Ads appeared first on IG GURU.

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The Last Watchdog

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

Yes, and that is what Sony exactly lost when they were hacked and the personal info of every one of its customers leaked in 2011. Compliance, governance. Huge sum, right? Related: Supply-chain hacks prove worrisome. This came to the news because Sony is one of the biggest names on the planet. Are they updated?

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 10, 2011

On June 7, 2011, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) introduced the “ Personal Data Privacy and Security Act of 2011 ” (the “Act”), co-sponsored by Senators Charles Schumer (D-NY) and Ben Cardin (D-MD). inform the individual how he or she may correct the electronic record used in the action.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2022

government includes: Russian state-sponsored APT actors targeting state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments and aviation networks, September 2020, through at least December 2020. Russian state-sponsored APT actors’ global Energy Sector intrusion campaign, 2011 to 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

In 2011, KrebsOnSecurity dissected “SevAntivir” — Severa’s eponymous fake antivirus affiliate program — showing it was used to deploy new copies of the Kelihos spam botnet. The government argued that under U.S.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

” The Government experts shared a list of Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) for these attacks, ANSSI also urges impacted organizations to report any evidence of compromise. Experts pointed out that the network of compromised home routers was involved in both reconnaissance as well as attacks against French organizations.

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Preservica

AUGUST 7, 2018

Boston, MA and Oxford, UK | Day August 7, 2018 | Preservica, a world leader in digital preservation, has announced its support for the Council of State Archivists’ (CoSA) 2018-19 research initiative into the risks to electronic state government records from file format and technology obsolescence.

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IG Guru

JUNE 14, 2021

Nearly 8 billion usernames have leaked since June 2011. The post TEN YEARS OF BREACHES IN ONE IMAGE via THE VERGE appeared first on IG GURU.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 27, 2024

Vehicle software safety…umm… As with the advent of the automobile in the first decades of the 20th century, the arrival of the “smart car” in the first decades of the 21st century has transpired as an industry-led initiative transpiring in a vacuum of government oversight, regulation and guidance.

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The Schedule

MARCH 14, 2023

Presenters Jen Haney Conover and Tina Ratcliff are two experienced local government records managers in Ohio. While both hail from local government, this presentation will convey valuable information for a records manager in any type of institution. She has been the Montgomery County Records & Information Manager since 2011.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 15, 2013

In March 2013, the UK government launched its consultation on cybersecurity standards (the “Consultation”) following the government’s recent announcement regarding a cybersecurity partnership initiative to facilitate information sharing on cyber threats.

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The Texas Record

SEPTEMBER 21, 2017

In that time, the popularity of text messaging (“texting”) has skyrocketed while awareness that text messages (“texts”) are potentially government records has increased very little. The definition of a government record in Texas is media neutral. Believe it or not, you can conduct government business via text message.

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IG Guru

JUNE 6, 2019

DURHAM – In the midst of social media chaos, from Facebook to Twitter, and growing needs for governments, businesses and other organizations to create a record of tweets to blogs, startup ArchiveSocial is bringing order – and now has a huge investor.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The US had sanctioned Mahan Air in 2011 for providing financial, material, or technological support to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The tension is high between Teheran and the Western countries, the latter are blaming Iran for a series of attacks against organizations worldwide.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 18, 2011

On April 15, 2011, the United Kingdom’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS”) announced that the UK will adopt the new EU rules on cookies without “gold-plating” the regulations by imposing additional national requirements, to help ensure that British companies can compete with the rest of Europe.

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Security Affairs

MAY 15, 2020

The Tropic Trooper APT that has been active at least since 2011, it was first spotted in 2015 by security experts at Trend Micro when it targeted government ministries and heavy industries in Taiwan and the military in the Philippines. ” reads the analysis published by Trend Micro.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2022

ECM’s domestic clients include the Novovoronezh, Kursk and Smolensk nuclear power plants, Russian Railways JSC, State enterprise Moscow Power Directorate, the Energy department of Moscow Government, the Moscow united electric grid JSC branch, and Baltic Oil Pipelines LLC. The collective has released a 1.7

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On 11 August 2023, India’s long-awaited law governing data protection – the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 ( DPDP Act ) – received the President’s assent and was published in the official gazette the following day. That said, there remains to be sector-specific restrictions on the transfer of personal data (e.g.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 1, 2019

million to settle a legal dispute for selling vulnerable software to the US government. The case was filed in the Federal District Court for the Western District of New York and was handled under the False Claims Act, which specifically addresses fraud and misconduct in federal government contracts. Cisco is going to pay $8.6

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Unwritten Record

JULY 21, 2020

Throughout history, we have seen how government has played a role in the way we do things, such as eating. At the time, government agencies did a lot of campaigning to persuade Americans to do their part in supporting the war effort. which explored the government’s effect on American diet. G16 NAID Identifier: 541773.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 21, 2011

On June 20, 2011, Malaysia’s Bernama News Agency reported that the Malaysian Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture will establish a government department to facilitate the implementation of Malaysia’s new Personal Data Protection Act. According to the report, enforcement of the Act is scheduled for early next year.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 6, 2022

Ask your client if they have any formal information governance policies. Preparing for the Rule 26(f) Scheduling Conference and Other Practical Advice in the Wake of the Recent Amendments to the Rules Governing E-Discovery,” The Federal Lawyer, August 2007. [2] Understand your client’s data policies and systems. Raether Jr.,

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John Battelle's Searchblog

JUNE 19, 2023

Culture, business, government – all would be revolutionized. But Airbnb launched in late 2008, Uber in 2009, and both didn’t gain widespread traction until 2011 or 2012. Some historical context is worth considering. 1993 was the year Wired first published, and we took to the technology with abandon.

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ChiefTech

MAY 22, 2012

Less than a quarter of the Australian Government's regular websites can be considered smartphone or mobile-friendly, according to a survey conducted by iTnews. A survey by the ITNews concludes that government Websites fail mobile access tests. Now, there are some very good examples of government in Australia using mobile.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Finisher, aka FinFisher, is a multiplatform surveillance software used by government and law enforcement agencies for their investigations, but unfortunately, it made the headlines because it was also used by oppressive regimes to spy on dissidents, activists, and Journalists.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2021

In April 2017, Symantec security experts who analyzed the alleged CIA hacking tools included in the Vault 7 dump that were involved in attacks aimed at least 40 governments and private organizations across 16 countries. Symantec believes Longhorn is a North American hacking group that has been active since at least 2011.

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Archive-It

APRIL 6, 2022

Dory Bower covered how the FLDP’s legally mandated web archiving continues the Government Publishing Office’s (GPO) mission of “Keeping America Informed,” as Federal agencies increasingly disseminate directly through their own websites. NLM’s examples of newer intiatives to reach out to the public.

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