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Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) discloses data breach after ransomware attack

Security Affairs

The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) finally disclosed a data breach impacting students, past students, and teachers after the June attack. In June a ransomware attack hit the Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE), now the organization disclosed a data breach.

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Wannacry, the hybrid malware that brought the world to its knees

Security Affairs

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware.

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Canadian Privacy Commissioner Issues Report on Children’s Educational Apps

Hunton Privacy

Recently, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (“OPC”) issued its 2017 Global Privacy Enforcement Network Sweep results (the “Report”), which focused on certain privacy practices of online educational tools and services targeted at classrooms.

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Is your school GDPR-compliant? Use our checklist to find out

IT Governance

How was it possible for someone to be so misguided about such a well-publicised regulation, the requirements of which have huge ramifications for the way organisations handle personal data? It continues to be effective for any organisation that processes the personal data of, or monitors the behaviour of, EU residents.

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Five reasons why law firms should adopt ISO 27001

IT Governance

Robust information security practices are critical to the legal sector – yet there is a notable gabetween the risks that firms face and their ability to mitigate them. Every law firm faces information security risks. Information security is not just about technology.

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GUEST ESSAY: The story behind how DataTribe is helping to seed ‘Cybersecurity Valley’ in Maryland

The Last Watchdog

It’s a cybersecurity and data science “foundry” that uniquely helps create, finance and intensely coach brand-new startups manned by former cybersecurity and data science veterans of select federal research centers and national laboratories. According to the U.S. This made it the nation’s eighth-largest technology hub.

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How to achieve and maintain PCI DSS compliance

IT Governance

All organisations that accept card payments need to comply with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS). This is not a simple task: if you make mistakes when implementing the Standard’s requirements, you’ll struggle to maintain compliance and expose yourself to data breaches and regulatory fines.