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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

The GDPR provision that may keep IT security teams busiest is Article 32, which requires “a process for regularly testing, assessing and evaluating the effectiveness of technical and organizational measures for ensuring the security of the processing” of personal data. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws. Health data and patient data in the U.S.

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What Is Encryption? Definition, How it Works, & Examples

eSecurity Planet

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. What Encryption Is and How It Relates to Cryptology The science of cryptography studies codes, how to create them, and how to solve them. How Does Encryption Process Data? How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 417 by Pierluigi Paganini – International edition

Security Affairs

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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TA505 group updates tactics and expands the list of targets

Security Affairs

” reads the analysis published by TrendMicro. TA505 also used in one attack an updated version of ServHelper that included the strings’ binary encrypted in Vigenère cipher. and which used emails with subjects pertaining to finance or urgent concerns on insurance policies. 36/p2, that is the same binary we found in the.

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Have board directors any liability for a cyberattack against their company?

Security Affairs

This article aims to provide recommendations to directors of listed and unlisted companies on actions to take in advance, during, and after a cyberattack. And this often happens when the hacker, the so-called threat actor, starts encrypting the computer systems. The size of the cyber risk to companies cannot be underestimated.

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Building Trust in Finance: Challenges & Solutions

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

This has led to a huge change in the way customers interact with financial organisations, with the majority of Americans now buying insurance online, and over 65% of Europeans now regularly using online banking. This article is going to take a closer look at some of the biggest challenges and propose a few solutions.

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What is Ransomware? Everything You Should Know

eSecurity Planet

Ransomware is a type of malicious program, or malware, that encrypts files, documents and images on a computer or server so that users cannot access the data. For readers coming to this article in a ransomware emergency, see How to Recover From a Ransomware Attack. How Does Ransomware Work?