CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

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. Data scraping or web scraping is a typically automated process that extracts information from websites, allowing criminals to compile datasets containing personal information.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Malware researcher Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool base on static YARA rules. Malware researcher Marco Ramilli released for free the Malware Hunter tool a simple but interesting catching tool base on static YARA rules. Malware Static Analysis.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Likewise, people drawing Social Security payments from the government will receive stimulus payments the same way. Unfortunately, SSN and DOB data is not secret , nor is it hard to come by.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2019

Canadian government regulators are using the country’s powerful new anti-spam law to pursue hefty fines of up to a million dollars against Canadian citizens suspected of helping to spread malicious software. Section 7 of CASL deals with the alteration of transmission data, including botnet activity. ”

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IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 24, 2023

The dependence on remote internet access for business, personal, and educational use elevated the data demand and boosted global data consumption. Additionally, the increase in online transactions and web traffic generated mountains of data. Enter the modernization of data warehousing solutions.

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Preservica

OCTOBER 10, 2021

October 10 th is Electronic Records Day, an annual event sponsored by the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) to raise awareness among US state government agencies, the general public, related professional organizations, and other stakeholders about the crucial role that electronic records play in their world.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 4, 2022

It’s been a couple of decades since data tapes delivered by trucks made encryption a standard enterprise cybersecurity practice. Yet even as technology has changed, sending and receiving data remains a major vulnerability, ensuring encryption’s place as a foundational security practice. What is Encryption?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2023

Countless smartphones seized in arrests and searches by police forces across the United States are being auctioned online without first having the data on them erased, a practice that can lead to crime victims being re-victimized, a new study found. In response, the largest online marketplace for items seized in U.S.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JANUARY 26, 2022

Data is at the heart of the EU’s digital and green transformation, which are the two priorities of the European Commission. With the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), adopted in 2016, the EU has created a solid framework for the protection of personal data in line with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania, a government agency reported. Albania’s National Authority for Electronic Certification and Cyber Security (AKCESK) revealed that cyber attacks hit the Assembly of the Republic of Albania and telecom company One Albania.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Expert opinion on US surveillance laws highlights FISA risk for data transfers to the US. Section 702 permits the US government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign (ie, non-US) persons located outside the US in order to acquire “foreign intelligence information.” By: Andrew Serwin, Carol A.F. Key findings of the expert opinion.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 14, 2021

In other words, the information was available to anyone with a web browser who happened to also examine the site’s public code using Developer Tools or simply right-clicking on the page and viewing the source code. “It is unlawful to access encoded data and systems in order to examine other peoples’ personal information.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The Government Computer Emergency Response Team of Ukraine CERT-UA is investigating multiple attacks against organizations in Ukraine that involved a new piece of ransomware called Somnia. Then the threat actors abused the victim’s Telegram account to steal VPN configuration data (authentication and certificates).

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IT Governance

JULY 12, 2019

Digital Guardian recently asked a group of cyber security experts what the most important step is following a data breach. So how should you approach a data breach investigation? This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. The crime scene.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Several strong themes emerged from 2022’s crop of breaches, including the targeting or impersonating of employees to gain access to internal company tools; multiple intrusions at the same victim company; and less-than-forthcoming statements from victim firms about what actually transpired.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. As usual, incidents affecting UK organisations are in bold. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Data loss refers to the destruction of sensitive information. It’s a specific type of data breach, falling into the ‘availability’ category of data security (the other two categories being ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’). In this blog, we explain what you need to know and provide data loss prevention tips. Human error.

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IT Computer and Electronics Data breaches Risk 98

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2021

Now, the founders of Norse have launched a new company with a somewhat different vision: RedTorch , which for the past two years has marketed a mix of services to high end celebrity clients, including spying and anti-spying tools and services. Extensive government work experience from working with federal governments.”

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Collibra

JULY 21, 2022

In another case, after migrating data to the cloud, you find a ton of duplicated data, jeopardizing your operations for two whole days while data engineers try to resolve the issues. They need undamaged data that represents real-world entities correctly and consistently. What does data integrity mean?

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Naturally, database vendors are leading providers of database security tools, and a growing number of cloud-based database providers are moving deeper into the data security space. These databases house the crown jewels of many organizations, critical applications and customer data, and thus are a primary target of hackers.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 14, 2023

It requires upward of $100 million in computational costs for a single model training run, in addition to access to large amounts of data. Governments can do it, too. So far, the AI regulation debate in Washington has focused on the governance of private-sector activity—which the US Congress is in no hurry to advance.

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Information Governance Perspectives

JANUARY 29, 2024

Health Information Technology (HIT) is the application of information processing involving computer hardware and software that deals with storing, retrieving, sharing, and using healthcare information, data, and knowledge for communication and decision-making. We’re interested in accessing as much data as feasible.” In the L.A.

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eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 28, 2022

The two-day event tackled the latest challenges in eDiscovery, cybersecurity, and information governance. Managing modern data was the most popular recurrent topic with four distinct panels on the subject. So, how should legal teams incorporate modern data into investigations?

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Data Matters

MARCH 13, 2018

In recent years, the rise of cloud computing has led to more and more data being stored somewhere other than the jurisdiction in which it was created. law enforcement officials to demand access to information held abroad, just as foreign officials increasingly want access to data held inside the United States.

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Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

MAY 19, 2017

On May 15, 2017, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a new report entitled “ Internet of Things: Status and implications of an increasingly connected world.” The GAO identified four technological advancements that have contributed to the increase in IoT devices: Miniaturized, inexpensive electronics.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 25, 2022

Encryption and the development of cryptography have been a cornerstone of IT security for decades and remain critical for data protection against evolving threats. As networks evolved and organizations adopted internet communications for critical business processes, these cryptographic systems became essential for protecting data.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

It is possible, if not probable, that we are about to witness an accelerated rate of adoption of cyber hygiene best practices, as well as more intensive use of leading-edge security tools and services. There is, in fact, deep consensus about how to protect sensitive data and ensure the overall security of corporate networks.

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AIIM

JANUARY 15, 2019

Digital transformation means reworking business processes to take maximum advantage of data and digital content. More data and process improvement will, in turn, allow us to do more with our content, to reach new audiences and boost satisfaction and profitability, however you measure it.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Consumer electronics, business, network appliances, and industrial IoT (IIoT) devices are all driving the exponential growth of IoT systems. Insecure implementations may result in unauthorized access to threat actors and potential data breaches.” This instance can result in NFV data breaches, resource exhaustion, or DDoS attacks.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 22, 2010

Microsoft is urging Congress and the information technology industry to act now to ensure that cloud computing is guided by an international commitment to privacy, security and transparency for consumers, businesses and government.

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eDiscovery Daily

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When businesses and governments began shutting down due to the COVID-19 virus, it fast-tracked the slow and cautious transition to remote work begun by legal service providers. . LSPs had already begun finding success operating in remote environments, using the cloud for eDiscovery data storage, processing, review, and analytics. .

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 21, 2015

On October 8, 2015, California Governor Jerry Brown signed into law the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (“CalECPA”). The government also must obtain a warrant before requiring a business to produce an individual’s electronic information.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Therefore, it's important to understand and leverage scanning as a fundamental tool for business today. Wider and more profitable opportunities exist for organizations to bridge the gap between paper and digital media, especially in traditionally paper-intensive fields such as financial services, healthcare, or government.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 12, 2018

Tony Sager (TS): The federal government has been worrying about this kind of problem for decades. In the 70s and 80s, the government was more dominant in the technology industry and didn’t have this massive internationalization of the technology supply chain. TS: Like a lot of things in security, the economics always win.

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

What follows below is an edited version of the debate in the House of Lords of the Second Reading of the Data Protection Bill, held on 10 October. Data is not just a resource for better marketing, better service and delivery. Data is used to build products themselves. It has become a cliché that data is the new oil.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The group is charges of violations of the Computer Fraud & Abuse Act and Electronic Communications Privacy Act; federal trademark infringement, dilution, and false designation of origin; cyber squatting; com mon law trespass to chattels; unjust enrichment; conversion; intentional interference with contracts. 27 in the U.S.

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