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Melbourne professor quits after health department pressures her over data breach

The Guardian Data Protection

In 2016, Vanessa Teague, a cryptographer from the University of Melbourne, and two of her colleagues reported on a dataset , published on an open government data website by the federal government, of 2.5m Australians’ Medicare and PBS payment history dating back to 1984 that had supposedly been de-identified so people were anonymous.

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What Is Data Loss Prevention (DLP)? Definition & Best Practices

eSecurity Planet

This includes scanning data in transit between devices or networks, as well as data at rest stored on servers, endpoints, or in the cloud, to ensure comprehensive coverage for detecting and preventing potential data breaches or illegal access.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 20 – 26 November 2023

IT Governance

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. We’ve also included more details on the top 3 biggest breaches of the week. Breached records: more than 56 million. Breached records: about 9 million.

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Volvo retailer leaks sensitive files

Security Affairs

The researchers also discovered a.DS_Store file that held metadata from the developer’s computer, revealing the file and folder names in the directory where the website’s project files were stored.

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Preserving your information from digital disasters

Preservica

One might picture data as a bunch of 0s and 1s, but data can manifest itself as photographs, music, or vital personal information. The Ponemon Institute’s 2019 Cost of a Data Breach report gives some staggering figures on the cost of data loss. What Does a Digital Disaster Look Like? Are you protected?

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Belgian Privacy Commission Issues Guidance on Data Protection Impact Assessments Under the GDPR

Data Matters

Processing exclusively in relation to the management of an organisation’s clients or suppliers (past or present), as long as the processing does not involve data such as ‘special category personal data’, or data concerning criminal convictions or infractions.

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Building a business case for your governance program

Collibra

The team will help you solicit recommendations for: The business use cases, priorities, and outcomes for data governance. Organization communications and initial education for data governance. Data governance programs gain the most traction when they are tied to specific business imperatives. Identify your challenges.