Data Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The law, most of which does not go into effect until January 1, 2023, will substantially overhaul and amend the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) which went into effect just this year, on January 1, 2020, with final regulations issued just a few months ago, on August 14, 2020. Automated Decision-Making – Access and Opt-Out Rights.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Further victims of last year’s Perry Johnson & Associates data breach identified Last year, the medical transcription company PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) suffered a data breach in which an unauthorised third party was able to access its computer network. Only 2 definitely haven’t had data breached.

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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. and Robert W.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Under the GDPR, a filing system is defined as “any structured set of personal data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralised, decentralised or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis” (GDPR Article 4.6). And none of that can be done without knowing where someone’s personal information is filed away.

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Data Matters

MARCH 10, 2021

On February 10, 2021, the Council of the European Union (which includes representatives of the European Union (EU) member states, hereinafter Council) reached an agreement on the ePrivacy Regulation proposal that governs the protection of privacy and confidentiality of electronic communications services (ePrivacy Regulation).

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

MARCH 3, 2023

Author: Sarah Birkett Cyber Security Strategy discussion paper launched This week saw the launch of a discussion paper for the Australian Government’s 2023-2030 Australian Cyber Security Strategy. The Strategy is expected to be finalised by the end of 2023. Supporting Australia’s cyber security workforce and skills pipeline.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

million customers’ data stolen VF Corporation – the parent company of many popular clothing brands, including Vans and The North Face – has confirmed in its Form 8-K/A filing to the US Securities and Exchange Commission (an amendment to its original Form 8-K filing ) that its December 2023 cyber attack resulted in the theft of 35.5

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Definition, How it Works, & Examples. These conceptual buckets provide definitions that help to define the inherent weaknesses and strengths of families of algorithms and tools. The wired equivalent privacy (WEP) and Wi-Fi protected access (WPA) algorithms incorporate streaming ciphers to encode Wi-fi data transmissions.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

Compromised data includes victims’ names, addresses, phone numbers and Aadhaar numbers (a 12-digit government identification number). It remains unclear how the data breach occurred, but the attackers apparently suggested it was the result of “exploiting vulnerabilities within government databases of telecommunication systems”.

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ForAllSecure

APRIL 19, 2023

Michael Coden, Associate Director, Cybersecurity, MIT Sloan, along with Michael Stonebreaker will present this novel concept at RSAC 2023. It manages all the resources that are needed, such as Random Access Memory or RAM, and hard or solid state drives. You can learn more at dbos-project.github.io. And software?

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 19, 2023

When the Russian Cl0p gang exploited a zero-day SQL injection vulnerability in MOVEit Transfer in May 2023, Delta Dental was one of hundreds of organisations whose data was compromised. Only 4 definitely haven’t had data breached. 144 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated or exposed. Source (New) Construction USA Yes 50.93

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Only 4 definitely haven’t had data breached. million to settle a complaint alleging that the home security camera company Ring “allowed employees and contractors to access consumers’ private videos and failed to implement security protections, enabling hackers to take control of consumers’ accounts, cameras, and videos”.

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KnowBe4

JUNE 6, 2023

CyberheistNews Vol 13 #23 | June 6th, 2023 [Wake-Up Call] It's Time to Focus More on Preventing Spear Phishing Fighting spear phishing attacks is the single best thing you can do to prevent breaches. Your email filters have an average 7-10% failure rate; you need a strong human firewall as your last line of defense.

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