IT Governance

AUGUST 7, 2023

Welcome to our August 2023 catches of the month feature, in which we explore the latest phishing scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. The pretext is also a quintessential example of phishing, as it creates a sense of shock and urgency.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Welcome to our September 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

On February 6, 2024, the UK government published a response to the consultation on its AI Regulation White Paper, which the UK government originally published in March 2023. The government views the non-statutory approach as offering “critical adaptability,” but has indicated this approach will remain under review.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Welcome to our February 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 5, 2024

IT Governance’s research found the following for December 2023: 1,351 publicly disclosed security incidents. Both these figures are a significant increase on what we found for November 2023 : 470 incidents and 519,111,354 records – 187% and 332% increases respectively. In November 2023, this was 227 incidents (48%).

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IT Governance

JULY 6, 2023

Welcome to our July 2023 catches of the month feature, in which we explore the latest phishing scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. The message appeared to come from the Chinese Ministry of Finance, and told recipients they were eligible to receive a new government-funded subsidy.

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IT Governance

APRIL 11, 2023

Welcome to our April 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Welcome to our November 2023 catches of the month feature, which examines recent phishing scams and the tactics criminals use to trick people into compromising their data. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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IT Governance

JUNE 8, 2023

We’ve looked at sources such as IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report , Verizon’s 2023 DBIR (Data Breaches and Investigations Report) and Proofpoint’s The State of Phishing report , and found 50 essential stats to reveal the threat that phishing plays – plus we have an extra statistic to explain how you can prevent attacks.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 11, 2023

Welcome to our January 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. Get started.

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IT Governance

MARCH 7, 2023

Welcome to our March 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. IT Governance offers a range of training options to help you with this, including our Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 13, 2023

You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. This 45-minute course uses real-world examples like the ones we’ve discussed here to explain how phishing attacks work, the tactics that cyber criminals use and how you can detect malicious emails.

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IT Governance

MAY 10, 2023

Welcome to our May 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. For example, one bogus site purports to offer ‘ChatGPT detectors’ that help people spot content that has been artificially generated.

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

On 1 and 2 February 2024, at the fourth 4 th ASEAN Digital Ministers Meeting ( ADGMIN ) in Singapore, ASEAN [1] unveiled: the updated Joint Guide to ASEAN Model Contractual Clauses and EU Standard Contractual Clauses ( Joint MCC – SCC Guide ); and the ASEAN Guide on AI Governance and Ethics ( ASEAN AI Governance Guide ).

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

IT Governance’s research has found the following for November 2023: 470 publicly disclosed security incidents. For example, UK service provider CTS suffered a cyber incident this month, which affected around 80 of its clients too (UK law firms). 519,111,354 records known to be breached. The total was 89 incidents, or 19%.

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CILIP

JUNE 14, 2023

Highly skilled and predominantly female - Workforce Mapping 2023 Survey results out now The libraries and information sector has a highly experienced and predominantly female workforce, with 40 per cent of staff having more than 20 years of work experience, according to data gathered for the Workforce Mapping 2023 survey.

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IT Governance

JUNE 6, 2023

Welcome to our June 2023 review of phishing attacks, in which we explore the latest email scams and the tactics that cyber criminals use to trick people into handing over personal data. You can help educate your staff with IT Governance’s Phishing Staff Awareness Training Programme. File Archive in the Browser scam exploiting ‘.zip’

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OpenText Information Management

JANUARY 27, 2023

For example, Australia recently passed new privacy reforms significantly increasing penalties for violations and … The post Data Privacy 2023: A reinvigorated data disposition strategy will bolster trust appeared first on OpenText Blogs.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

” Infoblox determined that until May 2023, domains ending in.info accounted for the bulk of new registrations tied to the malicious link shortening service, which Infoblox has dubbed “ Prolific Puma.” government agencies. “Our current abuse rate on abuseIQ for example is currently at 0%.

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Collibra

JULY 13, 2023

They say, “Bob or Mary is ensuring good data management with governance, quality, lineage. Let’s explore this fascinating debate a bit more in the context of 2023’s very hot summer topic of AI. This means, for example, the data should be reasonably comprehensive in its coverage of important cases and labeled consistently.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. Most countries have their own ccTLDs: MX for Mexico, for example, or.CA Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and found 30,000.US government overall, nor to the US public.”

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Mora said it’s unclear if the bitcoin address that holds his client’s stolen money is being held by the government or by the anonymous hackers. “The government doesn’t need the crypto as evidence, but in a forfeiture action the money goes to the government,” Rasch said. federal court.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Searching on Amazon.com in the Juniper portal, for example, returned tens of thousands of records. However, the changes may date back to September 2023, when Juniper announced it had rebuilt its customer support portal. “One minor screw up there can produce hilarious results.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2023

China-linked APT group Sharp Panda targets high-profile government entities in Southeast Asia with the Soul modular framework. CheckPoint researchers observed in late 2022, a campaign attributed to the China-linked APT group Sharp Panda that is targeting a high-profile government entity in the Southeast Asia.

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Collibra

JUNE 21, 2023

Today, OpenAI has one of the most popular websites in the world, with nearly 2B people visiting their site in May 2023 (footnote 3). Businesses everywhere are seeking ways to leverage LLMs as fast as governments are talking about ways to regulate them. What you need is a governance model for AI. You need AI governance.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 30, 2023

On October 30, 2023, the G7 leaders announced they had reached agreement on a set of International Guiding Principles on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a voluntary Code of Conduct for AI developers, pursuant to the Hiroshima AI Process.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. Click to enlarge. PEACE HOSTING?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 10, 2023

FBI InfraGard Best for critical infrastructure security InfraGard is a threat intelligence feed and network partnership between the FBI and other government agencies and interested private sector parties. The massive, crowdsourced approach OTX takes limits the possibility of effective quality assurance. critical infrastructure.

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IT Governance

JUNE 21, 2023

In this example, seen by MailGuard , the message appears to be a security alert from Netflix. For example, there is always an influx of phishing attacks imitating HMRC or the IRS during tax season. IT Governance does its part in this, as we share a collection of the latest phishing trends in our catches of the month feature.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. Related: SMBs too often pay ransom Small businesses, including nonprofit organizations, are not immune to cyberattacks. Employee training is crucial.

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Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

On December 18, 2023, the updated response from UK Information Commissioner John Edwards to the Data Protection and Digital Information (No 2) Bill (the “Bill”) was published on the website of the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The Commissioner’s original response was published in March 2023.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JANUARY 19, 2023

Take Apple, for example. The post Make data protection a 2023 competitive differentiator appeared first on Journey to AI Blog. They have been exceedingly clear in communicating with consumers what data is collected, why they’re collecting that data, and whether they’re making any revenue from it.

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Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2024

A previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ has been targeting military and government entities since 2018. Bitdefender researchers discovered a previously unknown China-linked threat actor dubbed ‘Unfading Sea Haze’ that has been targeting military and government entities since 2018.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Apple this week released emergency security updates to address three new zero-day vulnerabilities (CVE-2023-41993, CVE-2023-41991, CVE-2023-41992) that have been exploited in attacks in the wild. CVE-2023-41993 is an arbitrary code execution issue that resides in the Webkit. Apple fixed the flaw with improved checks.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

On October 26, 2023, the UK Online Safety Act (the “Act”) received Royal Assent, making it law in the UK. In a press release , the UK Government stated that the Act “takes a zero-tolerance approach to protecting children from online harm, while empowering adults with more choices over what they see online.”

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 20, 2023

On March 3, 2023, the U.S. Among other updates, the ECCP Guidance now includes new guidance for assessing how companies govern employees’ use of personal devices, communication platforms and messaging applications. The ECCP Guidance serves as a guidance document for prosecutors when evaluating a corporate compliance program.

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