Remove Agriculture Remove Encryption Remove Government Remove Privacy
article thumbnail

Knock, Knock; Who’s There? – IoT Device Identification & Data Integrity Is No Joke

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The use of IoT technologies holds enormous potential in practically every segment of human enterprise – government, banking and finance, healthcare, retail, agriculture, and ecommerce to name a few. Maintaining the privacy of sensitive data is imperative in most industries.

IoT 72
article thumbnail

Telstra warns public trust will crumble unless access to data is limited

The Guardian Data Protection

Telco says diverse agencies accessing data through legal loophole need to follow the same process as law enforcement bodies Telstra has warned that public trust in the security of their data will be eroded if government agencies continue to be allowed access to it without appropriate authorisation.

Access 47
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

GUEST ESSAY: Why organizations need to prepare for cyber attacks fueled by quantum computers

The Last Watchdog

Related: The role of post-quantum encryption. Quantum computers pose yet another looming threat since it has been mathematically proven that quantum computers with enough power will crack all the world’s public encryption. We most recently witnessed this as Russia invaded Ukraine.

article thumbnail

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed. of the Standard.

article thumbnail

The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

35 TB of data exfiltrated from Henry Schein, plus ALPHV/BlackCat re-encrypted the newly restored files As we first reported last month , the US healthcare solutions provider Henry Schein announced on 15 October that it had suffered a cyber attack that caused disruption to its manufacturing and distribution businesses.

article thumbnail

Episode 235: Justine Bone of MedSec on Healthcare Insecurity

The Security Ledger

The attack was the most significant to date on an Irish government agency and essentially froze HSE’s IT systems, which are used by the agency’s 54 public hospitals. With 80% of HSE’s IT environment encrypted by the CONTI gang, the Irish government had to pay millions of dollars to recover from.