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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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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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NHS’ Plans to Share Patient Records with Third Parties

Data Matters

The Notice further states that the data will never be shared with marketing or insurance companies. Although, data shared with e.g., a pharmaceutical company for research purposes would be made in reliance on NHS Digital’s legitimate interests. the right to object and/or erase personal data) do not apply.

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

IT Governance

Doncaster-based One Call Insurance hit by ransomware (unknown) Ransomware attack on Swiss Cloud Computing AG (6,500) Wolfe Eye Clinic victim of Lorenz threat actors (unknown) One of the US’s largest pipelines shuts down to contain cyber security breach (unknown) J. Find out more. Ransomware.