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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Fitis’s real-life identity was exposed in 2010 after two of the biggest sponsors of pharmaceutical spam went to war with each other, and large volumes of internal documents, emails and chat records seized from both spam empires were leaked to this author. At least my laptop is sure of it.” Image: Archive.org.

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NHS’ Plans to Share Patient Records with Third Parties

Data Matters

Who will the data be shared with: According to the Notice, data collected may be shared with a number of third parties including, for example, “research organisations, including universities, charities, clinical research organisations that run clinical trials and pharmaceutical companies”.

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China-linked APT41 group exploits Citrix, Cisco, Zoho flaws

Security Affairs

The APT41 has been active since at least 2012, it was involved in both state-sponsored espionage campaigns and financially-motivated attacks since 2014. The campaign was uncovered by FireEye , threat actor targeted many organizations worldwide the world by exploiting vulnerabilities in Citrix, Cisco and Zoho ManageEngine products.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in May 2021 – 116 million records breached

IT Governance

Herff Jones data breach leaves students’ bank information compromised (unknown) Georgia’s College Park leaders ‘stunned’ one of their own busted for ID theft (11) Air India discovers historic data breach dating back to 2012 (4.5 Malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Act is a welcome change to the old regime where national provisions concerning the subject matter have been scattered into different regulations, namely the Patient’s Rights Act (1992/785), Act on Electronic Processing of Social and Health Care Customer Data (2007/159), Bio Bank Act (2012/688) and Medicines Act (1987/395).

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Article 29 Working Party Issues Guidance on European Patients Smart Open Services

Hunton Privacy

On January 25, 2012, the Article 29 Working Party (the “Working Party”) issued a Working Document providing guidance on data protection issues relating to the European Patients Smart Open Services (“epSOS”) project.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

FLASHBACK The new clues about Rescator’s identity came into focus when I revisited the reporting around an April 2013 story here that identified the author of the OSX Flashback Trojan , an early malware strain that quickly spread to more than 650,000 Mac computers worldwide in 2012.