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Estonian National charged with helping Russia acquire U.S. hacking tools and electronics

Security Affairs

made electronics on behalf of the Russian government and military. The Estonian man is accused of having helped the Russian government and military to purchase US-made electronics and hacking tools. “Shevlyakov also attempted to acquire computer hacking tools.” ” reads a press release published by DoJ.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached

IT Governance

What else would you expect from the final month of 2020 than the highest number of publicly disclosed incidents we’ve ever recorded? That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in December 2020 – 148 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency Seeks Comment on Digital Innovation by Banks

Data Matters

electronic payments, check capture and online banking), the OCC lists some of the new technologies, the implementation of which may be hindered by ambiguous, burdensome or inflexible rules, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, biometrics, cloud computing and big data/analytics. Comments are due by August 3, 2020.

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Twenty-One Points, Less Than 350 Words: eDiscovery Best Practices

eDiscovery Daily

As Craig notes in the latest blog post on his terrific Ball in Your Court blog ( Electronic Storage in a Nutshell ), he finished the E-Discovery Workbook for the 2019 Georgetown E-Discovery Training Academy (which we covered here ). Do you feel you have an adequate understanding of technical concepts like electronic storage?

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached

IT Governance

discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown). discloses ransomware incident (unknown). Data breaches. million drivers’ details (3.3 In other news… U.S. Justice Department announces seizure of domain names used in spear phishing campaign posing as U.S.

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What is data loss and how does it work?

IT Governance

In this blog, we explain what you need to know and provide data loss prevention tips. Unlike desktop computers, laptops don’t have extra covers to protect them from water damage, which increases your risk of electronic components short circuiting. Computer viruses. appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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Free Ransomware Decryption Site Celebrates Milestone as New Threats Emerge

eSecurity Planet

The project now boasts 16 associate partners, including Emsisoft, Trend Micro, Bitdefender, Avast, Bleeping Computer, Cisco, Check Point, Tesorion, McAfee, ESET, CERT_PL, Eleven Paths, KISA, the French Police, and F-Secure. .” No More Ransom was founded in 2016 by the Dutch National Police, Europol, Intel Security and Kaspersky Lab.