Hunton Privacy

MARCH 15, 2024

ADMT Definition of Automated Decisionmaking Technology Clarify that a technology is an ADMT if it processes personal information and uses computation to execute a decision, replace human decisionmaking or substantially facilitate human decisionmaking. Recognize an exception from access requests for using ADMT solely for training purposes.

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Preservica

APRIL 26, 2018

I recently caught up with State Archivist Beth Shields and Electronic Records Branch Manager Kari May at KDLA to learn how they are preserving and providing access to their state’s large volumes of important digital assets. Active digital preservation and access in the Cloud. Access for all Kentuckians.

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The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As such, you should limit the amount of information that employees have access to. In addition, educating employees about cybersecurity issues can help to reinforce the security-minded culture of the organization and change employee behaviour. Cybercriminals are constantly searching for ways to gain access to an organization.

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

In all her courage and conviction, she was confronting the reality of a brutal Taliban regime that used violence to deny millions of women and girls the basic right to an education. It is not for nothing that CILIP’s own ‘impact statement’ reads: “We change lives by improving education, literacy and prosperity for all.”

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Expanded Definition of “Financial Institution.” The Final Rule expands the definition of “financial institution” to include entities engaged in activities that the Federal Reserve Board determines to be incidental to financial activities, harmonizing the FTC’s Safeguards Rule with the safeguards rules of other federal agencies.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It also appears that the data was accessed: the Readme bot “partially destroyed” the open instance, injecting a ransom note with a bitcoin wallet address to send a payment to in exchange for the files. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Source (New) Education USA Yes 1,493 Kimber Mfg.,

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

GhostR says it obtained the records from a Singapore-based company with access to the database. Mobile Guardian, which is used to help parents manage their children’s device usage, was hacked on 19 April, according to the Singaporean Ministry of Education. Account records from the United States were also accessed.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Cyber Essentials and Cyber Essentials Plus cover the basics such as ensuring secure configurations, using firewalls, controlling user access, and protecting against viruses and other malware. If you can, stick with OpenVPN, but definitely use L2TP/IPsec over PPTP. What other best-practice guidance could organisations follow?

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Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Handol Kim provided a technical definition of AI and addresses the hype surrounding AI. One of the key takeaways was the importance of knowing where your data resides to comply with data protection and localization laws, facilitating responses to data subject access requests, aiding in legal cases, and assessing potential data breaches.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The CCPA maintains a broad definition of “personal information” or PI, referring to it as “information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household.”. What is personal information?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Researchers from the German cyber security company Aplite discovered 3,806 servers from 111 countries accessible on the Internet. Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Less than 1% of the DICOM servers on the Internet use effective authorisation. Data breached: more than 59 million data records. Akumin Inc.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) requires encryption or equivalent security measures to protect private student records. The FBI has referred to this issue as “going dark,” while the U.S.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2021

As internet bandwidth has become more available, with homes having access to gigabit download speeds, a whole new world of career paths has opened for those who want to control their work hours and conditions. That makes fighting cybercrime a definite growth industry. Related: Mock attacks help SMBs harden defenses.

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eDiscovery Daily

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Though some legal teams refute its discoverability, the FRCP intentionally established a broad definition of ESI to accommodate new data types. 1] Accessing and producing that information, however, can present several challenges. Educate your employees or legal team about Slack’s retention policies. Tips to Keep in Mind.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Backend and authentication endpoint URLs, used to verify users before giving them access, could lead to attackers testing them for vulnerabilities and exploiting them. We can’t say for sure how much of the aforementioned data could be accessed using the ComfyApp credentials alone. “We

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While such PoCs are usually meant for educational purposes only, researchers found that 4,893 repositories out of 47,300 examined “have symptoms of malicious content,” which represents a bit more than 10% of all PoCs analyzed. However, running code blindly without knowing what it does is the very definition of a script kiddie.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

” The advisory says Zeppelin has attacked “a range of businesses and critical infrastructure organizations, including defense contractors, educational institutions, manufacturers, technology companies, and especially organizations in the healthcare and medical industries.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 3, 2024

Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. GB Universidad de La Punta Source (New) Education Argentina Yes 47,562 (95,123 lines; probably half repeated) Unfallkasse Thüringen Source (New) Insurance Germany Yes 45 GB Protektor24.ru 711 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or breached.

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Data Matters

AUGUST 9, 2021

In addition, the Act expands the definition of personally identifying information, compromise of which would constitute a data breach, to include patient data and medical data—a general category of health-related information that is not limited to protected health information under HIPAA.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2019

iNSYNQ ultimately declined to pay the ransom demand, and it is still working to completely restore customer access to files. “We could definitely have been better prepared, and it’s totally unacceptable,” Luchansky told customers. “I take full responsibility for this.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Apparently, he admitted to creating a phishing website that tricked a member of this group into providing access to the money they’d made from their scams. “Education is definitely one piece, as raising awareness is hands down the best way to get ahead of this,” Tokazowski said, in a June 2021 interview.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The Act also excludes from the definition of genetic data, “deidentified data,” as defined in the Act. The bill is pending California Governor Gavin Newsom’s signature. Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to HIPAA and the HITECH Act.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

GB dataset on a hacking forum, claiming to still have access to the breached system. Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93 Data breached: 19,972,829 individuals’ data.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

They accessed 41.5 million customers’ data having gained access via a vulnerability in Hathaway’s Laravel web application framework. million individuals affected HealthEC LLC, a health technology company, has announced that it suffered a data breach in July 2023, in which systems were accessed and files were copied.

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Data Matters

JANUARY 18, 2022

Definitions: The definition of “AI Systems” has been amended in an attempt to better differentiate AI from other information technology, and the definition of “provider” has been amended to emphasize that the AI Act is intended only to capture the commercial placing of AI products on the market.

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Data Matters

JULY 28, 2021

Key differences include requirements for contracts and privacy notices, applicable exemptions, required audits or assessments, and definitions of terms such as “sensitive information,” “publicly available information,” and “sale.” Applicability and Definitions. The CPA applies to any “controller” that. (a) Exemptions.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This is a trend that has become particularly pronounced over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, as everything from the delivery of education to socialising with friends has, as a matter of necessity, become increasingly digital. Online tools must be accessible and prominent to help the child. Who does it impact?

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 22, 2022

Twenty years ago, Saturday Night Live nailed a tendency in IT to be overly absorbed in tech-speak and to do a poor job of educating users. Here, we are more than two decades later, and it appears IT still can’t get its act together by offering sensible user direction directed toward a definite target that is comprehensible and actionable.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

API security protects data and back-end systems while preserving fluid communication between software components through strict protocols and access controls. Fundamentals of API Security API security includes a range of tactics such as strict authentication and authorization methods, data encryption technologies, and strong access controls.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

Despite the rapid evolution of what constitutes the users, assets, and connections, the fundamentals of networking security remain the same: block external threats, protect internal network communications, monitor the network for internal and external threats, and ensure that users only access authorized parts of the network.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

Virgin Islands, and Guam) have their own data breach notification laws (and each such state, accordingly, has its very own definition of such basic terms as “data” and “breach”) – with Massachusetts’ and California’s respective breach-notification schemes viewed as among the strictest. In the U.S.,

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IT Governance

APRIL 28, 2021

Likewise, someone in the office may take advantage of poor access controls to snoop on sensitive information that’s not relevant to their job. The education sector is the other major contributor, with 58 security incidents (16%). How many records have been compromised? Keeping your organisation secure.

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Hunton Privacy

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Key elements of the COPRA include to: provide individuals with several new privacy rights, including the rights to access, delete and correct their data, as well as a right to data portability; prohibit deceptive and harmful data practices; exempt de-identified data, employee data and public records from the definition of “covered personal data;”.

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Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2022

The CTDPA exempts certain entities, including, for example, state and local government entities, nonprofits, higher education institutions, financial institutions subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (“GLB”), and qualifying covered entities and business associates subject to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”).

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we’ve found 130,036,285 records known to be compromised, and 116 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 96 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

OCR’s reminders and recommendations for regulated entities include to: assess and reduce risks and vulnerabilities to the availability of ePHI, which is defined as “the property that data or information is accessible and useable upon demand by an authorized person” pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule. 45 CFR 164.308(a)(5)(i).

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The bill uses the same definition of “genetic data” as provided for in AB-825. Security : DTC Companies must implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to protect a consumer’s genetic data against unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure.

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