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Chinese hackers stole info from Spanish centers working on Covid19 vaccine

Security Affairs

While pharmaceutical companies worldwide are working on the research of a vaccine for the ongoing COVID19 pandemic, threat actors are conducting cyber espionage campaigns in the attempt of stealing information on the work. . ” reported El Pais. “A CSIC spokesperson said that no theft has occurred at its Madrid research centers.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached

IT Governance

Hackers send offensive, sexual messages to Chicago suburban school districts (unknown) ‘Beyond troubling’ emails sent from hacked teacher’s account (1) South African firm Absa accuses employee of leaking customer data (unknown). In other news….

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

McDonald’s is building AI solutions for customer care with IBM Watson AI technology and NLP to accelerate the development of its automated order taking (AOT) technology. Not only will this help scale the AOT tech across markets, but it will also help tackle integrations including additional languages, dialects and menu variations.

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THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE RUSSIAN MARKET

Info Source

That is why areas such as food, agriculture, health and pharmaceuticals are excluded from the restrictive measures imposed. For example, pharmaceutical companies such as Roche and Novartis have no intention of leaving Russia since medicines are exempt from sanctions on humanitarian grounds.

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

IT Governance

We also found 14 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) IT services Taiwan Yes 2,451,197 RMH Franchise Corporation Source (New) Hospitality USA Yes 1.5 TB Paysign, Inc. TB Paysign, Inc.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Insurance Iran Yes 400,000 Unknown Malaysian organisation(s) Source (New) Unknown Malaysia Yes 335,000 Di Martino Group Source (New) Transport Italy Yes 320 GB Charisma Life Insurance Co.