eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2022

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. Healthcare Data Privacy Laws.

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Data Privacy Compliance Privacy Security 142

Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

Siemens Metaverse, a virtual space built to mirror real machines, factories, and other highly complex systems, has exposed sensitive data, including the company’s office plans and internet of things (IoT) devices. We can’t say for sure how much of the aforementioned data could be accessed using the ComfyApp credentials alone. “We

IoT 98

IoT Manufacturing Authentication Ransomware 98

Data Matters

AUGUST 9, 2021

In recent weeks, Connecticut passed An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches (“The Act”), and the Uniform Law Commission approved and recommended the Uniform Personal Data Protection Act (“UPDPA”). Connecticut: An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches. Uniform Personal Data Protection Act.

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Data breaches Privacy Personal data Data Privacy 88

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

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. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: in the spotlight Hathaway breached, 41.5 The compromised data allegedly includes names, email addresses and phone numbers.

Data Privacy 75

Data Privacy Privacy Manufacturing Data breaches 75

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 28, 2022

While such PoCs are usually meant for educational purposes only, researchers found that 4,893 repositories out of 47,300 examined “have symptoms of malicious content,” which represents a bit more than 10% of all PoCs analyzed. However, running code blindly without knowing what it does is the very definition of a script kiddie.

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Cybersecurity Ransomware Education Security 133

IT Governance

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Welcome to our third quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information.

Data breaches 116

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 116

IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2022

Welcome to our first quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information.

Data breaches 115

Data breaches Ransomware Government Retail 115

Collibra

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

So your team has identified implementing data governance as a priority for the year. But what happens once you purchase a data governance platform? all your data problems are solved? This article is meant to outline the vital steps for implementing data governance. Why a data governance roadmap is vital.

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Government Education Communications Metadata 52

IT Governance

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Welcome to our third quarterly review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of cyber attacks and data breaches. Meanwhile, we have seen a resurgence in the number of publicly disclosed data breaches. How security incidents are occurring.

Data breaches 130

Data breaches Retail Government Ransomware 130

IT Governance

JULY 11, 2022

Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. As we often note, it’s hard to know definitively how many records have been compromised, because few publicly disclosed breaches contain this information.

Data breaches 105

Data breaches Ransomware Phishing Government 105

IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2023

Welcome to our review of security incidents for 2022, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly lists of data breaches and cyber attacks. Although that’s a positive development in terms of organisations’ fight against cyber crime and their ability to prevent data breaches, we must remain cautious.

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Data breaches Ransomware Government Passwords 126

Hunton Privacy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

On December 20, 2023, the FTC issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“Notice”), which would bring long-anticipated changes to the children’s online data privacy regime at the federal level in the U.S. Strengthening data security. The COPPA Rule has not been updated since 2012. Restricting ed tech in schools.

Privacy 72

Privacy Data Privacy Education Information Security 72

Data Protection Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Handol Kim provided a technical definition of AI and addresses the hype surrounding AI. They emphasized that understanding the whereabouts of your data and effectively managing it is not only essential for regulatory compliance but also carries significant legal and cost implications.

Cybersecurity 136

Cybersecurity Risk Artificial Intelligence Privacy 136

IT Governance

JULY 10, 2023

Welcome to our second quarterly review of cyber attacks and data breaches for 2023. How security incidents are occurring In compiling our monthly lists, we distinguish between data breaches caused by an organisation accidentally leaking information (‘data breaches’) and those that are the result of criminal hacking (‘cyber attacks’).

Data breaches 73

Data breaches Ransomware Encryption Government 73

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Employee security awareness is the most important defense against data breaches. It involves regularly changing passwords and inventorying sensitive data. There are several ways you can protect your business from data breaches. Inventory your sensitive data. Related: Leveraging security standards to protect your company.

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Cybersecurity Security awareness Passwords Data breaches 214

IBM Big Data Hub

APRIL 12, 2022

My first task as a Chief Data Officer (CDO) is to implement a data strategy. Over the past 15 years, I’ve learned that an effective data strategy enables the enterprise’s business strategy and is critical to elevate the role of a CDO from the backroom to the boardroom. A data-literate culture.

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Compliance Cloud Mining Government 83

IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

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. This week, we’re taking a slightly different approach with the ‘publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks’ category, presenting the most interesting data points in a table format.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Privacy Energy and Utilities Data breaches 52

IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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. Financial information, medical data, health reimbursements, postal addresses, telephone numbers and emails are not thought to have been compromised.

Data Privacy 52

Data Privacy Manufacturing Privacy Security 52

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 5, 2015

The guidance, Protecting Student Privacy While Using Online Educational Services: Model Terms of Service, states that the TOS offered by providers of online educational services and mobile applications are often “Click Wrap” agreements requiring schools and districts to accept the TOS without an opportunity for negotiation.

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Education Privacy Metadata Compliance 40

Data Protection Report

MARCH 8, 2021

On March 2, 2021, the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia signed into law the Consumer Data Protection Act , which contains many elements of California’s Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). institution of higher education. The new law goes into effect on January 1, 2023.

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Personal data GDPR Healthcare Sales 64

IT Governance

JULY 13, 2021

Welcome to our second quarterly review of security incidents for 2021, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of cyber attacks and data breaches. Meanwhile, we have again seen a comparatively low number of data breaches (75). The 82 data breaches and cyber attacks equate to 24% of Q2’s total.

Data breaches 98

Data breaches Retail Ransomware Government 98

Data Matters

JUNE 22, 2022

Connecticut has passed a new state data privacy law slated to go into effect on July 1, 2023. Consistent with all of the state data privacy laws we have seen to date, the Connecticut law does not provide for a private right of action to broadly enforce the privacy rights provisions of the law.

Data Privacy 88

Data Privacy Privacy Personal data Sales 88

Collibra

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

New data is generated every day, every minute and every second. Data is becoming more readily available and in new forms. All of this means that data is presenting more and more opportunities for innovation at any instance. The problem is that these organizations don’t have the right data culture.

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Government Digital transformation Education Compliance 52

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He’d been on the job less than six months, and because of the way his predecessor architected things, the company’s data backups also were encrypted by Zeppelin. The company also used that same donated infrastructure to help victims decrypt their data using the recovered keys. Then came the unlikely call from an FBI agent.

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Ransomware Encryption Manufacturing Phishing 311

IT Governance

APRIL 12, 2023

Welcome to our first quarterly review of security incidents for 2023, in which we take a closer look at the information gathered in our monthly list of data breaches and cyber attacks. However, as this technique became well-known, experts urged organisations to prepare for attacks by creating regular offline backups of valuable data.

Data breaches 59

Data breaches Ransomware Government Encryption 59

Data Protector

DECEMBER 31, 2016

The incoming Deputy Information Commissioner (Policy), who starts work in Wilmslow on 30 January, will amaze the data protection community with his knowledge of data protection law and practice. He will be supported through the year by key ICO staff who have a very considerable amount of knowledge of data protection law and practice.

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GDPR Communications Financial Services Education 120

Data Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

OCR’s reminders and recommendations for regulated entities include to: assess and reduce risks and vulnerabilities to the availability of ePHI, which is defined as “the property that data or information is accessible and useable upon demand by an authorized person” pursuant to the HIPAA Security Rule. 45 CFR 164.308(a)(5)(i).

Cybersecurity 88

Cybersecurity Privacy Insurance Risk 88

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 9, 2020

To make all this happen, there’s a lot of education, tooling, technology, and transformation that’s happening, which is why there was so much excitement in the air at KubeCon. 1 For more on microservices check out two of my earlier blogs, “ Securing Microservices ,” and “ Seven Microservices Identity Questions to Secure your Data. ”.

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Data science Cloud Marketing Education 105

CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

In all her courage and conviction, she was confronting the reality of a brutal Taliban regime that used violence to deny millions of women and girls the basic right to an education. It is not for nothing that CILIP’s own ‘impact statement’ reads: “We change lives by improving education, literacy and prosperity for all.”

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Libraries Education Government Access 98

Security Affairs

JANUARY 24, 2024

The company said that the ransomware attack took place on Friday night and impacted only one data center in Sweden. At present, Tietoevry cannot provide a definite timeframe for the complete restoration process due to the complexity of the security breach. Tietoevry notified law enforcement and impacted customers.

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Ransomware Government Retail Cloud 110

Hunton Privacy

MAY 10, 2022

On May 10, 2022, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed An Act Concerning Personal Data Privacy and Online Monitoring , after the law was previously passed by the Connecticut General Assembly in April. Connecticut is now the fifth state to enact a consumer privacy law.

Privacy 118

Privacy Personal data Sales B2B 118

Hunton Privacy

MARCH 15, 2024

ADMT Definition of Automated Decisionmaking Technology Clarify that a technology is an ADMT if it processes personal information and uses computation to execute a decision, replace human decisionmaking or substantially facilitate human decisionmaking. Streamline what must be included in an abridged risk assessment.

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Risk Artificial Intelligence Compliance Privacy 61

Hunton Privacy

JULY 28, 2020

On July 23, 2020, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (the “ICO”) published the first two reports of its Data Protection Regulatory Sandbox Beta phase (the “Beta phase”) involving projects by Jisc (a not-for-profit organization serving the higher and further education and skills sectors) and Heathrow Airport Ltd.

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IT GDPR Personal data Compliance 91

eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Encryption uses mathematical algorithms to transform and encode data so that only authorized parties can access it. The codes created in cryptographic research are called cryptographic algorithms, or encryption algorithms, and the process of applying those algorithms to data is called encryption. How Does Encryption Process Data?

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Encryption IT Passwords IoT 101

Collibra

MARCH 11, 2021

Data governance is a very intricate field, so implementing and sustaining data governance comes with a suite of challenges. Luckily, thousands, if not millions, of organizations use data governance to improve their operations, so you can learn from others’ mistakes and successes. Focus on the operating model.

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Government Communications Insurance Customer Experience 59

Hunton Privacy

JULY 19, 2019

Citing questions regarding the Rule’s application to the educational technology sector, voice-enabled connected devices, and general audience platforms that host child-directed content, the FTC indicated that it was moving up its review from a standard 10-year timeframe.

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Education Privacy IT Security 78

The Last Watchdog

MARCH 29, 2021

That makes fighting cybercrime a definite growth industry. The level of education you have is not a critical factor; training and ability are the keys. The educational requirements are variable, from high school completion through a bachelor’s degree, depending on the employer. The median pay for web developers is $35.46/hr.

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Cybersecurity IT Education Sales 240