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Connecticut Tightens its Data Breach Notification Laws

Data Protection Report

The amendment: Expands the definition of “personal information”; Shortens the notification deadline after discovery of a breach from 90 to 60 days; Removes the requirement to consult with law enforcement as part of a risk assessment; Deems compliant any person subject to and in compliance with HIPAA and HITECH; and.

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Colorado Amends Data Breach Notification Law and Enacts Data Security Requirements

Hunton Privacy

Applicability: The information security and disposal provisions of the Bill apply to “covered entities,” defined as persons that maintain, own or license personal identifying information in the course of the person’s business, vocation or occupation.

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New Leak Shows Business Side of China’s APT Menace

Krebs on Security

Experts say the leak illustrates how Chinese government agencies increasingly are contracting out foreign espionage campaigns to the nation’s burgeoning and highly competitive cybersecurity industry. In 2021, the Sichuan provincial government named i-SOON as one of “the top 30 information security companies.”

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The Pushmi-Pullyu Impact of Technology Innovation on Information Preservation

AIIM

So here's a quick definition of terms for those mystified by the title of this post. Of course, this was all back around 1995 -- about the time I joined AIIM -- and family research was a far different kettle of fish than it is now. Give our new course a look. That was enough to get me going. Ancestry.co.uk That needs to change.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

IT Governance

Only 2 definitely haven’t had data breached. Fortinet brushes off DDoS claims Despite going viral, a story that 3 million electric toothbrushes were hacked and used as a botnet to conduct DDoS (distributed-denial-of-service) attacks is, of course, untrue. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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The Hacker Mind: Hacking Aerospace

ForAllSecure

Steve Luczynski and Matt Mayes join The Hacker Mind to talk about the importance of getting hackers, vendors, and the government to get together and work through problems. So I'd say it's definitely possible. So I definitely think it's possible. And of course, when you say things like that you get a lot of press.

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A Cyber Insurance Backstop

Schneier on Security

After Merck filed its $700 million claim, the pharmaceutical giant’s insurers argued that they were not required to cover the malware’s damage because the cyberattack was widely attributed to the Russian government and therefore was excluded from standard property and casualty insurance coverage as a “hostile or warlike act.”