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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Indeed, while anonymity provides privacy and security for transactions, it can also be exploited by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering , drug trafficking, illegal arms sales, and terrorist financing. Prevention comes through educating users and taking robust security measures to protect their digital assets.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 4 – 10 December 2023

IT Governance

Consulting Engineering, PC Source (New) Engineering USA Yes Unknown Planbox Source (New) Technology Canada Yes Unknown GVM, Inc Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes Unknown Bowden Barlow Law, P.A.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 29 January – 4 February 2024

IT Governance

Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Professional services USA Yes 11,556 Poder Judicial de Santa Cruz Source (New) Legal Argentina Yes 8,732 J.D. Source (New) Construction USA Yes Unknown Curtainwall Design and Consulting, Inc.

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

IT Governance

Source (New) Software Luxembourg Yes 3,600,000 National Automobile Dealers Association Source (New) Retail USA Yes 1,065,000 Consórcio Canopus Source (New) Professional services Brazil Yes 1,400,000 The Teaching Company (Wondrium by The Great Courses) Source (New) Education USA Yes 1.3 TB Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co.

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Top 10 Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) Vendors

eSecurity Planet

Governance, risk, and compliance (GRC) software helps businesses manage all of the necessary documentation and processes for ensuring maximum productivity and preparedness. Third-party governance. Like other competitive GRC solutions, it speeds the process of aggregating and mining data, building reports, and managing files.

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Our Data Governance Is Broken. Let’s Reinvent It.

John Battelle's Searchblog

Most of my career has been spent evangelizing the power of technology to positively transform business, education, and politics. My current work is split between two projects: One has to do with data governance, the other political media. Big data, data breaches, data mining, data science…Today, we’re all about the data.

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List of data breaches and cyber attacks in August 2019 – 114.6 million records leaked

IT Governance

Australian education provider TAFE NSW hit by phishing scam (30). Multiple sites affiliated with the University of Florida student government hacked (unknown). French police ‘neutralize’ Monero mining virus as it spreads worldwide (850,000). A coordinated ransomware attack hits at least 20 local governments in Texas (unknown).