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Mainframes, Freight Trains and Education Pains

Rocket Software

The numbers are certainly out there, and those of us who work in big financial and retail can tell you that they haven’t declined the way others had expected them to. Programmers should influence our educational institutions. You’re tapping into the vein of what those forward-thinking educators want. We’ll all get through this.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for November 2022

IT Governance

Elsewhere, we assess data breaches at a cancer research facility and the US retailer Bed Bath & Beyond. As a result, the personal data of 244,850 patients was compromised – which likely includes patients’ names and numbers, but protected health information such as dates of birth and health insurance numbers might also be affected.

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2024 Cybersecurity Laws & Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets standards for protecting sensitive health information, particularly electronic health records (EHRs).

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11 cyber security predictions for 2020

IT Governance

Cyber insurance has in some regions encouraged victims to pay as it is cheaper than remediation in some cases. The retail and hospitality industries will continue to have their POS equipment targeted. Education is also becoming increasingly important when protecting organisations. Ransomware will continue to increase.

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The most valuable AI use cases for business

IBM Big Data Hub

Promote cross- and up-selling Recommendation engines use consumer behavior data and AI algorithms to help discover data trends to be used in the development of more effective up-selling and cross-selling strategies, resulting in more useful add-on recommendations for customers during checkout for online retailers.

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List of Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks in 2023

IT Governance

MCNA Insurance MCNA Insurance, also known as MCNA Dental, was caught up in a cyber hacking incident last week, in which 112 covered entities were affected. MCNA Insurance later confirmed that 8,923,662 people were affected in the incident and said the breach was a result of a ransomware attack.

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Catches of the Month: Phishing Scams for July 2022

IT Governance

It added: “We are working with local law enforcement, GEMA, GBI, and insurance officials to recover the funds. The next most frequent targets were software-as-a-service and webmail providers (20.5%) and e-commerce sites and retail stores (14.6%). It found that 23.6% of all incidents affected organisations that provide such services.

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