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UK regulators’ strategic approaches to AI: a guide to key regulatory priorities for AI governance professionals

Data Protection Report

Accountability and governance. In addition, given the rapid pace of innovation and widespread use cases, they are undertaking deeper analysis on the potential financial stability implications of AI/ML over the course of 2024, and that analysis will be considered by the Financial Policy Committee. Contestability and redress.

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GUEST ESSAY: Why there’s no such thing as anonymity it this digital age

The Last Watchdog

Here are a few unexpected examples of supposedly anonymous data reversal: •In 2016, the Australian government released what they called the “anonymous” (i. The consensus used to be that if the data is scrubbed, it can’t be used to identify individuals, and is hence suitable for analysis and marketing.

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Cambridgeshire crowned the UK’s cyber crime capital

IT Governance

Figures from the ONS (Office of National Statistics) show that security incidents in Cambridgeshire increased from 2,789 in 2016 to 4,155 in 2018. One reason to account for this is that the timeframe of this analysis coincides with major economic growth in the region.

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SHARED INTEL: How ransomware evolved from consumer trickery to deep enterprise hacks

The Last Watchdog

Related: What local government can do to repel ransomware Ransomware came into existence in 1989 as a primitive program dubbed the AIDS Trojan that was spreading via 5.25-inch The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. The first viable Mac ransomware called KeRanger was spotted in the spring of 2016.

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GCHQ implements World War II cipher machines in encryption app CyberChef

Security Affairs

UK intelligence agency GCHQ, as part of the celebration of its centenary , has released emulators for World War II cipher machines that can be executed in the encryption app CyberChef released for educational purposes. The GCHQ released the source code of the tool on GitHub in November 2016, alongside with a demo.

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Russia-linked STRONTIUM APT targets IoT devices to hack corporate networks

Security Affairs

The STRONTIUM APT group (aka APT28 , Fancy Bear , Pawn Storm , Sofacy Group , and Sednit ) has been active since at least 2007 and it has targeted governments, militaries, and security organizations worldwide. The group was involved also in the string of attacks that targeted 2016 Presidential election.

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Experts observed the growth of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018

Security Affairs

Security experts at Group-IB presented at Money2020 Asia the results of an interesting analysis of hi-tech crime landscape in Asia in 2018. Group-IB Threat Intelligence team identified hundreds of compromised credentials from Singaporean government agencies and educational institutions over the course of 2017 and 2018.

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