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Global Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in April 2024 – 5,336,840,757 Records Breached

IT Governance

1 Example: Le Slip Français – initially logged as unknown, although we knew that the threat actor claimed to have more than 1.5 2 Example: Argentinian database of driving licences – sample of 70,000 licences, so we logged this as 70,000 records, but the full database allegedly contains 5.7 million licences/records.

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Careers In Health Information Technology

Information Governance Perspectives

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. What is Health Information Technology? What’s it like to work in this field?

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University, Professional Certification or Direct Experience?

Security Affairs

but that recursive question raised a more general question: what are the differences between cybersecurity educational models? The education process is based upon the information to be shared, by meaning that information is the “starting brick” of education. Photo by Sharon McCutcheon on Unsplash. Section 4: The ignorance.

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RMS Section Meeting Teaser #5

The Schedule

Reminder: our section meeting is free and it is set for Monday, July 27th at 3pm EST. Are Records Essential to Governance of Higher Education during a Crisis? For example, at Trinity College (Hartford, CT), many professors taught outside their fields of training during World War II, when 1/3 of the faculty had left for war work.

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Snowden Ten Years Later

Schneier on Security

I fly a lot—a quarter of a million miles per year—and being put on a TSA list, or being detained at the US border and having my electronics confiscated, would be a major problem. So would the FBI breaking into my home and seizing my personal electronics. Transferring files electronically is what encryption is for.

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How should you investigate a data breach?

IT Governance

This might be, for example,the victim’s computer, a web page or a physical space in which documents were compromised. The scene of the incident will generally provide you with the clues you need to work out – or at least make an educated guess regarding – who was responsible for the breach and how it occurred. The crime scene.

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

Within these government labs and agencies, taking place is a groundswell of innovation in deep technology cyber disciplines to the tune of billions of dollars annually over the past three decades. Two notable examples are Sourcefire, acquired by Cisco for $2.7B The state counts approximately 109,000 cyber engineers.