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2020 in review: January to June

IT Governance

It’s hard to summarise 2020 without resorting to cliché, considering that our experiences have been so universal and subject to such little variety. These figures dwarf last year’s totals and show that criminal hackers were one of the few winners of 2020. What a simple time January 2020 was. Unprecedented. Challenging.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 291

Security Affairs

A cyberattack crippled the IT infrastructure of the City of Saint John Hundreds of female sports stars and celebrities have their naked photos and videos leaked online Romanians arrested for running underground malware services Threat actor shared a list of 49,577 IPs vulnerable Fortinet VPNs Computer Security and Data Privacy, the perfect alliance (..)

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CAPCOM: 390,000 people impacted in the recent ransomware Attack

Security Affairs

At the time, the Notice Regarding Network Issues published by the company revealed that on the morning of November 2nd, 2020 is suffered a cyberattack, In response to the incident the game developer shut down portions of their corporate network to prevent the malware from spreading. ” concludes the update. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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A look back on 2018: What was hype and what was, perhaps, underrated

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

By 2020, IoT technology will be in 95% of electronics for new product designs. By 2020, the banking industry will derive $1B of business value from the use of blockchain-based cryptocurrencies. Of course, no doubt in my mind that that cryptocurrencies will continue to mature and reach critical growth by 2020. IoT in Everything.

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Most Common Causes of Data Breach and How to Prevent It

Security Affairs

Which are the most common causes of a Data Breach and how to prevent It? Data breaches are highly damaging and equally embarrassing for businesses and consumers. If you look at Verizon’s 2020 Data Breach Investigations Report, you can find some of the most common causes of data breaches. Pierluigi Paganini.

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UK Supreme Court Grants Google Permission to Appeal Class Action Claim in Lloyd vs Google LLC

Data Matters

Google aggregated this “browser generated information” (“ BGI ”) into audience segments and offered these audience segments to subscribing advertisers. This has potentially opened the floodgates for further data privacy damages claims in the English Courts. including Google’s settlement payment of $22.5m to the U.S.

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The Digital Markets Act Is Almost Here: 10 Things to Know About the EU’s New Rules for Big Tech

Data Matters

For example, business users must be free to (i) negotiate different/more favorable conditions with other companies; (ii) communicate and conclude contracts directly with end users; (iii) easily terminate their contracts with gatekeepers; and (iv) access data generated in their use of gatekeepers’ platforms.