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

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology. Data breached: <1 billion people’s data. iSharing is used by more than 35 million users.

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Best Digital Forensics Tools & Software for 2021

eSecurity Planet

While several open-source tools exist for disk and data capture, network analysis, and specific device forensics, a growing number of vendors are building off what’s publicly available. Autopsy is its GUI and a digital forensics platform used widely in public and private computer system investigations to boost TSK’s abilities.

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Application Security: Complete Definition, Types & Solutions

eSecurity Planet

Take advantage of CAPTCHAs (Completely Automated Public Turing tests to tell Computers and Humans Apart) to prevent automated attacks, protect against abuse, improve user experience, ensure authenticity of user-generated data, and ensure that only legitimate user interactions are processed.

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HHS Settles First HIPAA Enforcement Action Against a State Agency

Hunton Privacy

The settlement relates to the theft of a portable electronic storage device potentially containing electronic protected health information (“ePHI”) from the car of a DHSS computer technician in October 2009. Pursuant to the resolution agreement, DHSS has agreed to pay $1.7 million to HHS to settle the potential violations.

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HHS Announces Settlements with Health Care System and Medical Research Institute over Potential HIPAA Violations

Hunton Privacy

In announcing the settlement with North Memorial, OCR Director Jocelyn Samuels noted that North Memorial had overlooked “[t]wo major cornerstones of the HIPAA Rules” by failing to enter into compliant BAAs and conducting a risk analysis. failed to encrypt ePHI or implement an equivalent mechanism. Feinstein Institute.

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The Burden of Privacy In Discovery

Data Matters

Should privacy be considered a “burden” under the proportionality analysis required by Federal Rule of Civil Procedure Rule 26(b)? 3 As a result, an emerging consensus of courts and commentators has concluded that privacy interests may — and indeed, should — be considered as part of the proportionality analysis required under Rule 26(b)(1).

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93