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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 13 – 19 November 2023

IT Governance

Records breached: Unknown ALPHV/BlackCat attacks MeridianLink then reports it to the SEC Date of breach: 7 November Breached organisation: MeridianLink Incident details: The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware group has added the software company MeridianLink to its leak site, having exfiltrated data without encrypting company systems.

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OCR Provides Insight into Enforcement Priorities and Breach Trends

HL Chronicle of Data Protection

Regulators, industry experts, and researchers provided insight into health privacy and security enforcement trends, emerging threats, and new tools at a recent conference focused on the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability (HIPAA) regulatory framework. OCR will take action to enforce the HIPAA Right of Access.

Risk 40
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Protecting Against the Risks and Managing the Complexities of a Quantum World with Thales and IBM Consulting

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

The Rise of Harvest Now, Decrypt Later Attacks A large, emerging concern are "Harvest Now, Decrypt Later" (HNDL) attacks, where hackers intercept and store encrypted long-life data with the intention of decrypting it once quantum computers become capable of breaking current encryption standards.

Risk 87
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US: Coronavirus – Cybersecurity considerations for your newly remote workforce

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

Where feasible, consider using encryption and secure file transfer platforms for the transmission of sensitive data. Businesses are urged to analyze cyber insurance policies for notification obligations and required approvals for the use of response vendors (legal, forensics, public relations, notifications, etc.).

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

IT Governance

Affected information includes users’ names, email addresses, IP addresses and encrypted passwords. TB Turtlemint Source (New) Insurance India Yes 1,800,000 Chunghwa Telecom Source (New) Telecoms Taiwan Yes 1.7 The threat actor, KryptonZambie, listed a 5.93

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

IT Governance

Glosbe dictionary exposes almost 7 million records The multilingual online dictionary Glosbe left a MongoDB instance unsecured last year, exposing nearly 7 million users’ information, including personal data, encrypted passwords and social media identifiers. Glosbe did not reply, but the open instance was soon closed.

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Resolving Disputes During & Post COVID

Information Governance Perspectives

You’re probably familiar with some of these like Zoom and Webex and I haven’t included products like CourtCall on here, or Big Marker, which we’re actually using for this particular Webinar, but we’ll talk about CourtCall at least, in a moment. It’s not uniform by any means. Zoom fixed it after the public learned about it.