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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Real estate USA Yes 46,906 Hampton-Newport News Community Services Board Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 44,312 Air Methods Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 34,016 GREYHOURS Source (New) Retail France Yes 18,700 Groveport Madison Schools Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Education USA Yes 15.5

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

Mobile Guardian, which is used to help parents manage their children’s device usage, was hacked on 19 April, according to the Singaporean Ministry of Education. Mobile Guardian, which is based in the UK, said that its investigations detected unauthorised access to its systems via an administrative account on its management portal.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in February 2022 – 5.1 million records breached

IT Governance

In second largest DeFi hack ever, Blockchain bridge loses $320M ether (unknown) Scammer steals $15K from Excluded Workers Fund (unknown). Financial information. Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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Encryption: How It Works, Types, and the Quantum Future

eSecurity Planet

Not every application or network requires military-grade encryption – however, enterprise organizations can’t go wrong with the services offering the most strength. ECC has proven to be a popular choice for web applications , blockchains , and mobile devices as a fast, lightweight yet secure alternative to RSA.

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An Approach to Cybersecurity Risk Oversight for Corporate Directors

Data Matters

In particular, in a blog article entitled, The NIST Cybersecurity Framework and the FTC , dated August 31, 2016, the FTC provided guidance suggesting that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is consistent with the agency’s approach followed since the late 1990s in over 60 law enforcement actions and in business education guidance.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Tales From A Ransomware Negotiator

ForAllSecure

VAMOSI: So once it's paid, it's immediately tumbled or mixed into something else and therefore, the blockchain becomes obvious after you skated and all that. of cryptocurrency. There's a lot of different emotions that go along with incident response. LANCE : A lot of the members of our team come from various types of backgrounds.