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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

Patients expect their health information to be kept safe and secure, and a breach of that trust can instantly cause a patient to look down upon the agency that violates it. Since 2003, there have been over 331,100 complaints that were handled by the Office for Civil Rights.

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A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris

Krebs on Security

These data brokers do not want to be treated as CRAs, and for this reason their people search reports typically do not include detailed credit histories, financial information, or full Social Security Numbers (Radaris reports include the first six digits of one’s SSN). But in September 2023, the U.S.

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GDPR: lawful bases for processing, with examples

IT Governance

An ‘affirmative act’ means the data subject has to opt-in – you cannot assume their consent, for example by using pre-ticked boxes on your website. For example, when you process staff data for payroll purposes, contractual obligations will apply, as staff will have signed a contract of employment. Contractual obligations.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. All those exercises, the honeypot or honeynet challenges I think that's what they were called in.

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GDPR: lawful bases for processing, with examples

IT Governance

For tasks carried out in the public interest or exercise of authority vested in the data controller. For example, when you process staff data for payroll purposes, contractual obligations will apply, as staff will have signed a contract of employment. To comply with the data controller’s legal obligations. Public task.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: The Fog of Cyber War

ForAllSecure

I’m talking about cybercrime unicorns, talking the fog of cyberwar among nation states, and about a new book that I think will be on the shelves of every information security professional later this summer. Vamosi: The slogan of the RSA Conference is “Where the World Talks Security,” and, in general. It’s not.