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

IT Governance

The number of records breached this month was high – particularly compared to March – largely due to two outlier events: Spy.pet, a data scraping website, offering 4,186,879,104 Discord messages for sale. We discuss both events in more detail below. Critical vulnerabilities in 9 pinyin keyboard apps, affecting up to 1 billion users.

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3 Ways to Protect Smart Devices from Criminal Exploits

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

3 Ways to Protect Smart Devices from Criminal Exploits madhav Thu, 07/20/2023 - 07:28 When people think of home or business security, they are usually worried about protecting against a physical breaking in via a window or door and a burglar stealing valuables such as jewelry, cash, electronics, and equipment.

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FERC issues notice of proposed rulemaking to extend reporting requirements for cyberattacks targeting the energy sector

Data Protection Report

DHS’ webinar explained that the hackers obtained access to vendors providing computer services to electric utilities companies. First, there should be “notice based upon the severity of the event and the risk to BES reliability, with updates to follow initial reports.” electrical grids and power plants. 5) Alerting.

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Regulating Privacy Across Borders in the Digital Age

Hunton Privacy

On November 10, 2010, the American Bar Association’s Section of Antitrust Law’s International Committee and Corporate Counseling Committee hosted a webinar on “Regulating Privacy Across Borders in the Digital Age: An Emerging Global Consensus or Vive la Difference?”.

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Archive-It Partner News, February 2019

Archive-It

The Advanced Training webinar series returns on February 26 with Archive-It as a Reference Tool. You can register here to join us live and always check back on past training webinars here in the Archive-It Help Center. Mar 3-6: Electronic Resources & Libraries – Austin, TX. Mar 26-28: Computers in Libraries – Arlington, VA.

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Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. What’s driving the security of IoT?

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

There is also less hardware and compute power to work in your typical IoT device when compared to traditional devices, so embedding security becomes a matter of choice, rather than necessity. Think about IoT devices and the components within them, such as electronic control units (ECU) and the gateways that aggregate and transfer data.

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Tom O’Connor of the Gulf Coast Legal Technology Center: eDiscovery Trends 2018

eDiscovery Daily

They understand that there’s some computer technology in play. I would try to get them in the fold for this event because they’re getting good attendance. Which has been great – I love doing the webinars that you and I do together. What does that mean? What are you disrupting? Maybe it’s advanced analytics.

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