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2019 end-of-year review part 1: January to June

IT Governance

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Part one covers January to June, and will be followed by part in the coming days.

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STEPS FORWARD: Math geniuses strive to make a pivotal advance — by obfuscating software code

The Last Watchdog

Related: How Multi Party Computation is disrupting encrypti on An accomplished violinist, Einstein, no doubt, appreciated the symmetry of his metaphor. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering — puts us one step closer to a working iO prototype. Sahai recently gave this presentation outlining the technical aspects.

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European Commission proposes reinforcement of EU Cybersecurity rules

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

A DSP is an information society service that is an online marketplace, an online search engine or a cloud computing service. The deployment models of cloud computing should include private, community, public and hybrid cloud and be interpreted in accordance with the ISO/IEC 17788:2014 standard.

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EU: NIS2 enters into force

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Member States may also require essential and important entities to use particular ICT products, ICT services and ICT processes that are certified under European cybersecurity certification schemes (adopted pursuant to the EU Cybersecurity Act of 2019). NIS2 significantly expands the sectors and type of entities falling under its scope.

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GUEST ESSAY. Everyone should grasp these facts about cyber threats that plague digital commerce

The Last Watchdog

Malware, a combination of the terms ‘malicious’ and ‘software,’ includes all malicious programs that intend to exploit computer devices or entire network infrastructures to extract victim’s data, disrupt business operations, or simply, cause chaos. Unfortunately, this could be your computer trying to give away the presence of malware.

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Ten Years Later, New Clues in the Target Breach

Krebs on Security

retail giant Target was battling a wide-ranging computer intrusion that compromised more than 40 million customer payment cards over the previous month. Zhabykin said Suex, which is registered in the Czech Republic, was mostly a failure and had conducted only a half dozen or so transactions since 2019.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in April 2021 – 1 billion records breached

IT Governance

Maze/Egregor ransomware cartel estimated to have made $75 million Brokerage firm agrees to $3 million deal for New York cyber security rule violations National Australia Bank repays customers $687k for 2019 data breach. discloses security incident (unknown) St. discloses security incident (unknown) St. Data breaches. Will you be next?