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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

The number of records breached this month was high – particularly compared to March – largely due to two outlier events: Spy.pet, a data scraping website, offering 4,186,879,104 Discord messages for sale. We discuss both events in more detail below. This blog provides further analysis of the data we’ve collected.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

In this blog, we explain what you need to know and provide data loss prevention tips. Unlike desktop computers, laptops don’t have extra covers to protect them from water damage, which increases your risk of electronic components short circuiting. Computer viruses. What causes data loss? Data loss prevention methods.

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Today is the Day to “Master” Your Knowledge of eDiscovery in Washington DC for 2018: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Today is the start of the The Master’s Conference DC event! This year’s Washington DC event includes nearly two days of educational sessions covers topics ranging from privacy to cybersecurity to social media to cloud computing. GDPR, blockchain and big data are also significant topics for the event. Hope you can join us!

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FAQ: How does web archiving fit into records management?

The Texas Record

Last but not least, think about how the ease of access to your records, their security and management, and your service contract could be affected if your web archiving provider experiences an event that threatens its systems or if it joins forces with another company. Recorded Webinar – July 2015 – 33 mins).

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How should you investigate a data breach?

IT Governance

This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. Fortunately, IT Governance is here to help. appeared first on IT Governance Blog. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? The crime scene. The most effective method is digital forensics.

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The Personnel File: Retention & Best Practices

The Texas Record

Every state agency and local government creates and maintains employee records. The complicating factor for employee records is that both Local Government Schedule GR and the State Records Retention Schedule list multiple records series that can be classified as personnel records (located in Part 3 of each schedule). Trigger Event.