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Information Security vs Cyber Security: The Difference

IT Governance

You’ll often see the terms cyber security and information security used interchangeably. That’s because, in their most basic forms, they refer to the same thing: the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information. What is information security? There are two sub-categories of information security.

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Do you know the difference between cyber security and information security?

IT Governance

You often see people use the terms ‘ cyber security ’ and ‘ information security ’ interchangeably. That’s because, in their most basic forms, they refer to the same thing: the integrity and confidentiality of information. Information security. There are two sub-categories of information security.

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Scranton School District in Pennsylvania suffered a ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The Scranton School District is working with third-party forensic specialists to investigate the security breach and restore impacted systems. The attack is causing a temporary disruption to some of our computer systems and services. ” reported The Time Tribune. ” reported The Time Tribune.

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“Beyond the border scam”, pay attention to the instance of the new Nigerian fraud

Security Affairs

Following up on the electronic letter, the alleged widow begins a copious correspondence in which she says she was left completely alone after the death of her husband and children and without a home or money and hosted in a border refugee camp, where she feeds herself. during the Russian invasion of Ukraine that began in 2022.

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Brazil Nominates Directors of the Brazil Data Protection Authority; Senate Approval Pending

Hunton Privacy

Arthur Pereira Sabbat (five-year mandate), currently Director of the Information Security department of the Brazilian Presidency. Joacil Basilio Rael (four-year mandate), computer engineer who graduated from the Military Engineering Institute.

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German DPAs Issue Joint Position Paper on Alternatives to Safe Harbor

Hunton Privacy

On October 26, 2015, the German federal and state data protection authorities (the “German DPAs”) published a joint position paper on Safe Harbor and potential alternatives for transfers of data to the U.S. the “Position Paper”). that are solely based on Safe Harbor. on the basis of BCRs or data export agreements.

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Experts demonstrate the PIN is useless in EMV contactless transactions

Security Affairs

Researchers David Basin, Ralf Sasse, and Jorge Toro-Pozo from the department of computer science at ETH Zurich discovered multiple vulnerabilities in the implementation of the payment card EMV standard that allow hackers to carry out attacks targeting both the cardholder and the merchant. ” reads the research paper.