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Report: Recent 10x Increase in Cyberattacks on Ukraine

Krebs on Security

. “Looking three weeks ago on the same day of the week as yesterday, we had 118 million total block events, and of that 1.4 “Our entire network saw yesterday on March 9th 121 million blocking events, worldwide. Of those 121 million events, 4.6 million were in Ukraine and Poland,” Todd said.

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News alert: NCA’s Data Privacy Week webinars highlight data protection for consumers, businesses

The Last Watchdog

Through Data Privacy Week we hope to inspire better data stewardship and empower people to reclaim control of their digital footprints, balancing innovation with privacy.” This even includes information about a person’s physical well-being, like health data from apps. Give Data Brokers the Slip!

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Secret Service Investigates Breach at U.S. Govt IT Contractor

Krebs on Security

Secret Service is investigating a breach at a Virginia-based government technology contractor that saw access to several of its systems put up for sale in the cybercrime underground, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. government IT contractor that does business with more than 20 federal agencies, including several branches of the military.

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Data Governance and Business Transformation

Collibra

Collibra organized a Data Governance and Business Transformation seminar in Paris recently, bringing together data managers from the financial, retail, transportation, and logistics industries. Digital transformation remains a central business initiative that relies on data. What Forrester describes as “Data Governance 2.0”

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More New York SHIELD Act guidance

Data Protection Report

The NYAG faulted Wegmans on five security areas: access controls, password management, asset management, logging and monitoring, and data collection and retention. Data Collection and Retention : The affected information included checksums derived from Customers’ driver’s license numbers.

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When are schools required to report personal data breaches?

IT Governance

In this blog, we take a look at the scenarios in which data protection breaches in schools must be reported. What constitutes a personal data breach. The ICO defines a personal data breach as any event that results in. Sending personal data to the wrong person : this includes any message sent by email, post or fax.

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Privacy in a Parallel Digital Universe: The Metaverse

Data Protection Report

By utilizing technologies such as virtual reality, augmented reality, and blockchain, the metaverse is able to provide elements such as 3D avatars, digital assets, and various events to support a virtual economy and facilitate social relationships. While this concept may seem futuristic, certain aspects of the metaverse are already here.

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