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Over a billion records belonging to CVS Health exposed online

Security Affairs

This week WebsitePlanet along with the researcher Jeremiah Fowler discovered an unsecured database, belonging to the US healthcare and pharmaceutical giant CVS Health, that was exposed online. The database was accessible to everyone without any type of authentication.

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Google warned users of 33,015 nation-state attacks since January

Security Affairs

The IT giant pointed out that major events like elections and COVID-19 represent opportunities for threat actors. During the last summer, Google observed threat actors from China, Russia, and Iran targeting pharmaceutical companies and researchers involved in the development of a vaccine. . Tbps, the largest DDoS attack of ever.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

They can also help businesses predict future events and understand why past events occurred. By infusing AI into IT operations , companies can harness the considerable power of NLP, big data, and ML models to automate and streamline operational workflows, and monitor event correlation and causality determination.

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Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts – UK Offers Legal Clarity

Data Matters

In principle, a statutory “signature” requirement can be met by using a private key intended to authenticate a document, and a statutory “in writing” requirement can be met in the case of a smart contract whose code element is recorded in source code. 5 The consequences of this are important, however.

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Cryptoassets and Smart Contracts – UK Offers Legal Clarity

Data Matters

In principle, a statutory “signature” requirement can be met by using a private key intended to authenticate a document, and a statutory “in writing” requirement can be met in the case of a smart contract whose code element is recorded in source code. 5 The consequences of this are important, however.

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Article 29 Working Party Issues Guidance on European Patients Smart Open Services

Hunton Privacy

The second consent may not be required if the treatment is necessary to protect a patient’s vital interests or if the patient is incapable of giving his or her consent in the event of an emergency. The processing of health data must be strictly limited to the minimum necessary to fulfill the epSOS purposes (purpose limitation principle).

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

In the first week of January, the pharmaceutical giant Merck quietly settled its years-long lawsuit over whether or not its property and casualty insurers would cover a $700 million claim filed after the devastating NotPetya cyberattack in 2017. But this is easier said than done.