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Information Security vs Cyber Security: The Difference

IT Governance

You’ll often see the terms cyber security and information security used interchangeably. In this blog, we explain what information security and cyber security are, the differences between them and how they fit into your data protection practices. What is information security? This is cyber security.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2018 – 44,701,278 records leaked

IT Governance

These monthly blogs will now look at three lesser-known stories in detail, as well as give a total number for all records exposed in the month. The representative did a “visual review” of the buckets, as USPS’s internal policy is not to plug any USB sticks into a computer (not all bad practice, eh?), There’s issue number two.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in October 2018 – 44,701,278 records leaked

IT Governance

These monthly blogs will now look at three lesser-known stories in detail, as well as give a total number for all records exposed in the month. The representative did a “visual review” of the buckets, as USPS’s internal policy is not to plug any USB sticks into a computer (not all bad practice, eh?), There’s issue number two.

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Highlights from DefCon 2018

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There were many security issues present in corporate AD implementations, and hacking commonly-used voting machines was discussed. This year’s DefCon badges were electronic and contained a hidden game that could only be completed by connecting to the board over a serial interface and by interacting with other badge holders at the conference.

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First Multistate HIPAA Data Breach Lawsuit May Signal Increased State Interest in Data Security Enforcement

Data Matters

On December 3, 2018, twelve attorneys general (“AGs”) jointly filed a data breach lawsuit against Medical Informatics Engineering and its subsidiary, NoMoreClipboard LLC (collectively “the Company”), an electronic health records company, in federal district court in Indiana. 3, 2018). See Indiana v. Informatics Eng’g, Inc. ,

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Podcast Episode 128: Do Security and Privacy have a Booth at CES?

The Security Ledger

In this episode of The Security Ledger podcast (#128): you're going to hear a lot from the annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) out in Las Vegas this week, but are any of the new gadgets being released secure? And do security and privacy have a seat at the table at the world's largest electronics event?

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Using Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper

Security Affairs

Marco Ramilli, founder and CEO at cyber security firm Yoroi has explained how to use Microsoft Powerpoint as Malware Dropper. The downloaded PE Executable is a.NET file created by ExtendedScript Toolkit (according to compilation time) on 2018-11-13 15:21:54 and submitted a few hours later on VirusTotal. Stage 3: NET file.