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“Beyond the border scam”, pay attention to the instance of the new Nigerian fraud

Security Affairs

Here is an example of the new Nigerian scam to which I have given the name ” Beyond the border scam ” and which is carried out entirely online and via email. Education improves awareness” is his slogan. The 419 scam is based on deception and psychological manipulation, exploiting the greed, pity, or curiosity of victims.

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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

1 Example: Le Slip Français – initially logged as unknown, although we knew that the threat actor claimed to have more than 1.5 2 Example: Argentinian database of driving licences – sample of 70,000 licences, so we logged this as 70,000 records, but the full database allegedly contains 5.7 million licences/records.

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The guidelines ensure that patient information is safe from unauthorized access and sharing. Some of the data that it covers are: Electronic health records Billing details Health insurance information The Importance of Compliance There are severe consequences to not abiding by the HIPAA rules. What are the Most Common HIPAA Violations?

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Careers In Health Information Technology

Information Governance Perspectives

Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving computer hardware and software that deals with storing, retrieving, sharing, and using healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. We’re interested in accessing as much data as feasible.” In the L.A.

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RMS Section Meeting Teaser #5

The Schedule

Reminder: our section meeting is free and it is set for Monday, July 27th at 3pm EST. Are Records Essential to Governance of Higher Education during a Crisis? For example, at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), many professors taught outside their fields of training during World War II, when 1/3 of the faculty had left for war work.

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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

For example, you can now go to the library for practical resources to learn about starting your small business. So, the fundamental role of the library hasn’t changed within society, but how we access information within the library has. He gave us one example of how the privacy domain intersects with libraries.

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How should you investigate a data breach?

IT Governance

This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. Means : the tools that were used to commit the crime, such as malware, hacking expertise or access to a user’s login credentials. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? The crime scene.