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Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

ARMA International

These undertakings require planning, communication, documentation, and collaboration to be successful. I have been a member of the OAR staff at the ANO since March 2013. The plan was to meet the insurance coordinator at the Howard Avenue office at 8:30 a.m. The insurance coordinator proposed stabilizing in place.

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Hacker Charged With Extorting Online Psychotherapy Service

Krebs on Security

In a series of posts over the ensuing days on a Finnish-language dark net discussion board, ransom_man said Vastaamo appeared unwilling to negotiate a payment, and that he would start publishing 100 patient profiles every 24 hours “to provide further incentive for the company to continue communicating with us.”

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Do’s and Don’ts of Text Message Discovery

eDiscovery Daily

Emails were the primary concern since they held the bulk (if not all) of business communications. As text messages became the preferred method for informal communications, their usage in the business world also grew. [1] 1] In 2015, research showed that 80% of professionals conducted business communications through texts.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

They notified SAP SE, which responded “in the most professional and efficient manner”, remediating the issue, launching an investigation and maintaining communications with Aqua Nautilus. The researchers discovered credentials that provided access to 95,592,696 artifacts, as well as download permissions and some deploy operations.

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HHS Announces HIPAA Settlement with UMass

Hunton Privacy

On November 22, 2016, the Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) announced a $650,000 settlement with University of Massachusetts Amherst (“UMass”), resulting from alleged violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (“HIPAA”) Privacy and Security Rules. .

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Hacked Data Broker Accounts Fueled Phony COVID Loans, Unemployment Claims

Krebs on Security

A group of thieves thought to be responsible for collecting millions in fraudulent small business loans and unemployment insurance benefits from COVID-19 economic relief efforts gathered personal data on people and businesses they were impersonating by leveraging several compromised accounts at a little-known U.S.

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German DPAs Address a Wide Range of Topics at Annual Conference and Adopt Resolutions

Hunton Privacy

On October 2, 2013, the 86th Conference of the German Data Protection Commissioners concluded in Bremen. securing electronic communications by implementing and developing end-to-end encryption. The DPAs request to strengthen the rights of the private and intimate sphere of patients’ and insured patients’ lives.