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Data protection strategy: Key components and best practices

IBM Big Data Hub

To fulfill these principles, data protection strategies generally focus on the following three areas: Data security —protecting digital information from unauthorized access, corruption or theft throughout its entire lifecycle. Its principles are the same as those of data protection—to protect data and support data availability.

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French pharmaceuticals distribution platform Apodis Pharma leaking 1.7+ TB of confidential data

Security Affairs

Apodis Pharma is a company that offers a digital supply chain management platform and other software solutions created for pharmacies, healthcare institutions, pharmaceutical laboratories, and health insurance companies. The archives include product data like product quantities and IDs, as well as warehouse data.

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Ask Fitis, the Bear: Real Crooks Sign Their Malware

Krebs on Security

Code-signing certificates are supposed to help authenticate the identity of software publishers, and provide cryptographic assurance that a signed piece of software has not been altered or tampered with. The exposed files in the archived version of fitis[.]ru “Why do I need a certificate?

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Understanding HIPAA: A Guide to Avoiding Common Violations

Armstrong Archives

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) ensures individuals’ health data protection and privacy. This includes insurance companies, nurses, and doctors. Healthcare has become more interconnected than ever, making it important to protect patients’ sensitive information.

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New CNIL €400,000 fine for data security breaches and non-compliance with data retention period under the GDPR

Data Protection Report

The issue giving rise to the financial penalty was a security breach relating to the company’s website notified by a user to the CNIL on 12 August 2018. According to SERGIC, the website’s security breach could have impacted around 29,440 users.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 April 2024

IT Governance

Kid Security breached again: children’s live GPS locations exposed on the Internet Last November , the parental control app Kid Security, which allows parents to monitor and control their children’s online safety, was found to have exposed more than 300 million records via misconfigured Elasticsearch and Logstash instances.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 April 2024

IT Governance

Compromised data includes names, passport numbers, Social Security numbers, online crypto account identifiers and bank account numbers. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Criminal hackers threaten to leak World-Check screening database A criminal group known as GhostR claims to have stolen 5.3