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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

The IT giant pointed out that major events like elections and COVID-19 represent opportunities for threat actors. During the last summer, Google observed threat actors from China, Russia, and Iran targeting pharmaceutical companies and researchers involved in the development of a vaccine. . Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever.

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House of Representatives Passes Bill to Permit Broader Use and Disclosure of Protected Health Information for Research Purposes

Hunton Privacy

On July 10, 2015, the United States House of Representatives passed the 21st Century Cures Act (the “Act”), which is intended to ease restrictions on the use and disclosure of protected health information (“PHI”) for research purposes.

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Encryption – A Feasible Savior against Prevalent Privacy Issues in Business Communication

Security Affairs

Safeguard the integrity of intellectual property, especially when there’s a risk of corporate espionage, which is prevalent in industries like pharmaceuticals, etc. Other than events like NCSAM that have managed to increase cyber security awareness, we need businesses to step up their game when it comes to cybersecurity.

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Law and Technology Move Center Stage

Positively RIM

While enabling quick delivery can be important, using algorithms for alerts to medical conditions or pharmaceutical needs can be life-saving. The concluding forum also invoked the “C” Suite in plans for 2015. In the fourth (and possibly) final post on this conference, I will present a summary and analysis of the event as a whole.

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Revealing the Invisible

AIIM

In guiding and prepping the event partners and educators, I revisited an article that AIIM21 keynote speaker, Tom Koulopoulos wrote six years ago. Tom is no stranger to AIIM, having presented at our 2015 conference in San Diego. The following text is reprinted from Tom's 2015 article, The Gravity of Future.

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Anonymization & Pseudonymization as Tools for Cross-Border Discovery Compliance

ARMA International

This turn of events has many companies scrambling to determine how to cope with the conflict between U.S. For example, consider the hypothetical case of Class Action Plaintiffs vs. ABC Pharmaceutical Company. 13, 2014); In re Xarelto (Rivaroxaban) Prods. 2592 Section L (E.D. 20, 2016); St. Janssen-Counotte , 104 F. 3d 1150 (D.

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Cybaze ZLab – Yoroi team analyzed malware used in recent attacks on US entities attributed to APT29

Security Affairs

The researchers of Yoroi ZLab, on 16 November, accessed to a new APT29’s dangerous malware which seems to be involved in the recent wave of attacks aimed at many important US entities, such as military agencies, law enforcement, defense contractors , media companies and pharmaceutical companies. cybersecurity firm FireEye. FILENAME: ds7002.lnk.