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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology. Data breached: <1 billion people’s data.

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An Early Recap of Privacy in 2020: A US Perspective

Data Matters

*This article was adapted from “Global Overview,” appearing in The Privacy, Data Protection and Cybersecurity Law Review (7th Ed. and first published by the International Association of Privacy Professionals Privacy Perspectives series on September 28, 2020. But COVID-19 was not the only shock to the privacy system in 2020.

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HHS Releases Guidance on Audio-Only Telehealth Practices

Hunton Privacy

Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) released guidance to help covered entities understand how they can use remote communication technologies for audio-only telehealth in compliance with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules (the “Guidance”).

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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. , 3:18-cv-00969 (N.D.

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HHS Announces HIPAA Settlement with UMass

Hunton Privacy

On November 22, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a $650,000 settlement with University of Massachusetts Amherst (“UMass”), resulting from alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules. .

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OCR Enters into Record Settlement with Anthem

Hunton Privacy

Attackers were able to download malicious files to the employee’s computer and gain access to other Anthem systems that contained individuals’ names, Social Security numbers, medical identification numbers, addresses, dates of birth, email addresses and employment information. prevent unauthorized access to ePHI.

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Malware Training Sets: FollowUP

Security Affairs

So, I came up with this blog post and this GitHub repository where I proposed a new testing-set based on a modified version of Malware Instruction Set for Behavior-Based Analysis , also referred as MIST. The original post along many other interesting analysis are available on the Marco Ramilli blog: [link].