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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

Spamit), an invite-only community for Russian-speaking people in the businesses of sending spam and building botnets of infected computers to relay said spam. Icamis promoted his services in 2003 — such as bulk-domains[.]info The Spamdot admins went by the nicknames Icamis (a.k.a. Ika ), and Salomon (a.k.a. w s, icamis[.]ru

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Trial Court Examines Stored Communications Act Applicability to Offline Mobile Phone

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) is a law noted for its complexity, and the second portion of it, the Stored Communications Act (SCA) is no exception. At its core, the SCA applies to communications that are in “electronic storage.” At its core, the SCA applies to communications that are in “electronic storage.”

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. The deployment models of cloud computing should include private, community, public and hybrid cloud and be interpreted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17788:2014 standard.

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. Since 2003, there have been over 331,100 complaints that were handled by the Office for Civil Rights.

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New book explores the social, institutional and user impacts of e-legal deposit

CILIP

Facet Publishing announce the publication of Electronic Legal Deposit: Shaping the Library Collections of the Future edited by Paul Gooding and Melissa Terras. Regulations governing electronic legal deposit often also prescribe how these materials can be accessed.

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Weekly podcast: Yahoo hacker sentenced, acoustic DoS attack and GDPR compliance fails

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the sentencing of one of the perpetrators of the 2013 Yahoo breach, a new type of denial-of-service attack that can crash computers just using sound and how not to email your customers. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 1 June 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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Top Cybersecurity Accounts to Follow on Twitter

eSecurity Planet

Galperin is the current Director of Cybersecurity at the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and noted free speech advocate. Breaking: Mars becomes the second planet that has more computers running Linux than Windows. October is now BGP Awareness Month. — Eva (@evacide) October 4, 2021. Graham Cluley | @gcluley.