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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Location Matters.

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

The Last Watchdog

22, 2024 – Today, the National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) , announced the program for its third annual Data Privacy Week campaign, which will take place from January 22nd to January 27th. While you can’t control every bit of collected data, it’s crucial to assert your right to data privacy.

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Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Data Privacy and Security: It Takes Two to Tango. The National Cybersecurity Alliance (NCA) announced earlier this year that they have expanded the Data Privacy Day campaign into Data Privacy Week , a full week-long initiative. And when a breach does happen, then our personal data is the main target.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 16–22 October 2023

IT Governance

Incident details: Network security incident, where allegedly AlphV gained unauthorised access and made demands to the hospital’s leadership, suggesting a ransomware attack. Records breached: 5 TB of Structured Query Language (SQL) plus data (presumably patient data). It’s unclear whether personal data has been breached.

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What are you doing for Data Privacy Week?

IT Governance

Data privacy is a concept that governs our everyday lives. We’re asked to hand over our personal data for seemingly everything that we do – from browsing the web to high-street shopping. Although many of us are broadly aware of the risks involved when sharing our personal data, it often doesn’t get the attention it deserves.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

million customers’ data having gained access via a vulnerability in Hathaway’s Laravel web application framework. The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers. Data breached: 41,500,000 records. Data breached: 4,452,782 records. They accessed 41.5 HealthEC LLC breached, almost 4.5

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 12 – 18 February 2024

IT Governance

Fowler sent a responsible disclosure notice when he discovered the database and it was secured the following day. Source New Telecoms USA Yes 6,158 Nabholz Construction Company Employee Welfare Health Plan Source 1 ; source 2 New Healthcare USA Yes 5,326 Dawson James Securities, Inc. North Hill Home Health Care, Inc.,