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BEST PRACTICES: Why pursuing sound ‘data governance’ can be a cybersecurity multiplier

The Last Watchdog

Related: What we’ve learned from the massive breach of Capitol At RSA 2020 , I learned about how one of the routine daily chores all large organizations perform — data governance — has started to emerge as something of a cybersecurity multiplier. A robust data archiving strategy puts data into tiers, Lahiri says.

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$10M Is Yours If You Can Get This Guy to Leave Russia

Krebs on Security

government this week put a $10 million bounty on the head of a Russian man who for the past 18 years operated Try2Check , one of the cybercrime underground’s most trusted services for checking the validity of stolen credit card data. Denis Kulkov, a.k.a. “Nordex,” in his Ferrari. Image: USDOJ.

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Credit card gambling ban: government to meet banks and bookies

IT Governance

Wright continued: “The government will not hesitate to act if businesses don’t continue to make progress in this area and do all they can to ensure vulnerable people are protected. Licences at risk. Gambling operators must step in and act when people are showing signs of risky gambling. Labour will ban it.”.

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The Intranet Imperative (2005)

ChiefTech

I wrote this in June 2005. Governance -– the management controls (standards, committees, etc) that deal with the form of the infrastructure and the nature of the content in the system to ensure it meets the needs of the organisation and its users. But the pace of technology change is increasing , email is being challenged.

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Documentation Theory for Information Governance

ARMA International

iv] Further, “the practices of government [and other public and private institutions] become formal or official to the extent that they are documented.” [v] This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. A Documentary Approach.

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Body Found in Canada Identified as Neo-Nazi Spam King

Krebs on Security

The body of a man found shot inside a burned out vehicle in Canada three years ago has been identified as that of Davis Wolfgang Hawke , a prolific spammer and neo-Nazi who led a failed anti-government march on Washington, D.C. In 2005, AOL won a $12.8 in 1999, according to news reports.

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Meet Ika & Sal: The Bulletproof Hosting Duo from Hell

Krebs on Security

From January 2005 to April 2013, there were two primary administrators of the cybercrime forum Spamdot (a.k.a government said Grichishkin and three others set up the infrastructure used by cybercriminals between 2009 to 2015 to distribute malware and attack financial institutions and victims throughout the United States. .