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

IT Governance

Other databases contained health insurance data, such as patents’ names, dates of birth, addresses and medical data. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5 The biggest database in the blob contained 3.1 million patients and 1.6 million unique Social Security numbers. Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 1.1

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Connecticut Makes Five: The Constitution State Enacts Broad Data Privacy Law Effective July 2023

Data Matters

We outline below the key provisions of the law and draw some comparisons to the other data privacy laws to survey the lay of the state data privacy landscape. Also exempt are HIPAA covered entities and business associates, nonprofits, governmental entities and institutions of higher education.

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CyberheistNews Vol 13 #22 [Eye on Fraud] A Closer Look at the Massive 72% Spike in Financial Phishing Attacks

KnowBe4

The next layer in your defense should be a user that's properly educated using security awareness training to easily identify financial fraud and other phishing-based threats, stopping them before they do actual damage. link] Cyber Insurance: Is Paying a Ransom Counter-Productive? By Jacqueline Jayne. The numbers are scary.

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Think you’re not susceptible to phishing? Think again

IT Governance

Holiday e-card alerts were the most successful scam (24.8%), followed by rewards programmes (22.3%), various other celebratory e-cards and employee satisfaction surveys (17.2%). The subjects of this study know enough about phishing that they believe they aren’t fooled by the scams’ attempts to make them fearful, etc.,

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FTC Hosts Workshop on Informational Injury

Hunton Privacy

Panelists called on the FTC to take a number of measures to further study these informational risks and injuries, including studying different types of identity theft distinctly and not limiting this to one general topic, and writing reports on substantive harms that have meaningful impacts on people’s lives and the potential solutions.

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Preparing for Litigation Before it Happens: eDiscovery Best Practices, Part Four

eDiscovery Daily

A 2014 Rand study found that 44% of companies didn’t have any formal data governance policy and 22% of firms without a data policy had no plans to implement one. In addition, industry specific regulations in areas such as gaming or insurance can vary from state to state. This situation has not changed substantially since then.

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The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

However, a recent YouGov survey of the public commissioned by the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT, shows very little support for this. It is certainly at odds with the results of this recent survey. This becomes very onerous if you are doing a long study. I am sure that many noble Lords use statins.

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