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Cambridgeshire crowned the UK’s cyber crime capital

IT Governance

In 2017, Cambridge became the fastest-growing city in the UK , with businesses attracted to its proximity to London and the North, as well as its highly educated workforce. For example, the pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca, which is based in Cambridge, was last year imitated in a sophisticated phishing scam targeting job seekers.

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China-linked APT41 group exploits Citrix, Cisco, Zoho flaws

Security Affairs

The group hit entities in several industries, including the gaming, healthcare, high-tech, higher education, telecommunications, and travel services industries. The hackers initially exploited the CVE-2019-19781 flaw in Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), Citrix Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliances.

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China-linked hackers target government agencies by exploiting flaws in Citrix, Pulse, and F5 systems, and MS Exchange

Security Affairs

7 ] CVE-2019-19781 : Citrix Virtual Private Network (VPN) Appliances – CISA has observed the threat actors attempting to discover vulnerable Citrix VPN Appliances. CVE-2019-19781 enabled the actors to execute directory traversal attacks.[ CVE-2019-19781 enabled the actors to execute directory traversal attacks.[

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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

Census Bureau reported that the population of Virginia in 2019 was approximately 8.5 institution of higher education. million people.). The new law also expressly does not apply to any: financial institution or data subject to Gramm- Leach-Bliley Act); covered entity or business associate governed by HIPAA; nonprofit organization; or.

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FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

The Finnish Parliament has approved the new general Act on the Secondary Use of Social Welfare and Health Care Data (Laki sosiaali- ja terveystietojen toissijaisesta käytöstä, based on government proposal HE 159/2017) in March 2019. The Act shall become effective within the following weeks.

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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. Will you be next?