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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

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. The homepage of Stark Industries Solutions.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 April 2024

IT Governance

Only 4 definitely haven’t had data breached. iSharing is used by more than 35 million users. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we found 5,255,944,117 records known to be compromised, and 128 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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6,009,014 MovieBoxPro Accounts Breached in Another Data Scraping Incident

IT Governance

A further 381,000 New York City public school students affected by 2022 data breach In January 2022 , personal data from around 820,000 New York City public school students, both current and former, was breached. None definitely haven’t had data breached. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Young, Inc.

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Connecticut Enacts Consumer Privacy Law

Hunton Privacy

On May 10, 2022, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring , after the law was previously passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in April. Connecticut is now the fifth state to enact a consumer privacy law.

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Security Training: Moving on from Nick Burns Through Better Communication

eSecurity Planet

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. See the winners of eSecurity Planet’s 2022 Cybersecurity Product Awards. The Nick Burns: Your Company Computer Guy skits showed rude IT guys belittling users as they fixed their “stupid” problems.

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Developments in Health Privacy and Cybersecurity Policy and Regulation: OCR Issues Cybersecurity Warnings and New Health Data Legislation Is Introduced

Data Matters

On March 17, 2022, the U.S. 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.

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California Privacy Law Overhaul – Proposition 24 Passes

Data Matters

Changes to the Definition of Businesses Subject to the CPRA. The CPRA adjusts its definition of a “business” as defined by the CCPA; broadening the scope in some cases, and narrowing it in others. The CPRA expanded the definition of a business in several respects. However, in some cases, the definition of “business” is narrowed.

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