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Guest Post -- New Global Data  and Privacy Regulations in 2018 and the GDPR

AIIM

Data privacy breaches have been in the news again and again this year, eliciting increased concern from regulators and legislative bodies. We can be sure that issues like the Equifax breach and Yahoo’s recent disclosure of the scope of the 2013 breach will remain topics of discussion and litigation for some time to come.

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A Decade of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Search for your account across multiple breaches [link] — Have I Been Pwned (@haveibeenpwned) December 4, 2013 And then, as they say, things kinda escalated quickly. ” Anyone can type in an email address into the site to check if their personal data has been compromised in a security breach.

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Fuel digital transformation with data security and data privacy

Collibra

All parts of the business are undermined by the effects of data breaches and regulatory fines. Data breaches. Organizations are challenged every day to keep the personal data they hold safe across their entire ecosystem. Target – $300 million, ~40 million customers, 2013. Data modernization. Risk mitigation.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Italian data protection authority fines Enel €79 million Italy’s data protection regulator, the Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali, has fined the country’s largest utility company, Enel, more than €79 million for misusing customer data for telemarketing. Other news NIST releases version 2.0 NIST CSF 2.0

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Is India's Aadhaar System Really "Hack-Proof"? Assessing a Publicly Observable Security Posture

Troy Hunt

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one.

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I'm Open Sourcing the Have I Been Pwned Code Base

Troy Hunt

Let me explain: HIBP Has Always Been Open in Spirit I've already written extensively about the architecture of the system across many of the 128 previous blog posts tagged as Have I Been Pwned. The very second blog post on that tag was about how I used Azure Table Storage to make it so fast and so cheap.

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The Legitimisation of Have I Been Pwned

Troy Hunt

Transparency has been a huge part of that effort and I've always written and spoken candidly about my thought processes, how I handle data and very often, the mechanics of how I've built the service (have a scroll through the HIBP tag on this blog for many examples of each). — Jannis Tenbrink (@the_jannis) October 2, 2017.