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Virginia’s new Consumer Data Protection Act

Data Protection Report

Importantly, note the new law’s definition of consumer : “a natural person who is a resident of the Commonwealth acting only in an individual or household context. institution of higher education. It does not include a natural person acting in a commercial or employment context.”

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The Good, Bad, And The Ugly: Key Takeaways From California’s New Privacy Law

Privacy and Cybersecurity Law

The CCPA’s definition of “consumer” is equally broad. This definition therefore not only encompasses a “consumer” in the traditional sense (i.e., The business community is already lobbying the California legislature to narrow this definition. The CCPA governs how businesses treat “consumer” “personal information.”

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 March 2024

IT Governance

Only 3 definitely haven’t had data breached. Source (New) Finance USA Yes 3,494 Woodruff Sawyer Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 3,087 Blackburn College Source (New) Education USA Yes 3,039 CAIRE Inc. 92 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 15 – 21 January 2024

IT Governance

Only 1 definitely hasn’t had data breached. GB JSP Pharmaceutical Manufacturing (Thailand) PCL Source (New) Manufacturing Thailand Yes >80 GB TREZOR Source (New) Crypto France Yes Nearly 66,000 Oak View Group Source (New) Leisure USA Yes 58,935 Innefu Labs Pvt. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached?

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 26 February – 3 March 2024

IT Governance

Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. Publicly disclosed data breaches and cyber attacks: full list This week, we found 252,796,762 records known to be compromised, and 126 organisations suffering a newly disclosed incident. 110 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or otherwise breached.

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The Weeks in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 18 – 31 December 2023

IT Governance

Only 5 definitely haven’t had data breached. GB Universidad de La Punta Source (New) Education Argentina Yes 47,562 (95,123 lines; probably half repeated) Unfallkasse Thüringen Source (New) Insurance Germany Yes 45 GB Protektor24.ru 711 of them are known to have had data exfiltrated, exposed or breached.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

So there’s a need, a definite need, for information security professionals to have access to industrial control systems -- not virtual, but actual hands on systems -- so they can learn. Kim Zetter’s book, Countdown to Zero Day, is perhaps the definitive book on the subject. Let me start over that. Technology Security.