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Resecurity Released a 2024 Cyber Threat Landscape Forecast

Security Affairs

Bad actors will leverage these regulations as tools for manipulation and extortion, echoing the tactics employed by certain ransomware operators who threaten victims with GDPR compliance violations and regulatory fines.

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90% of critical infrastructure providers have fallen victim to a cyber attack since 2017

IT Governance

The anonymous survey covered the utility, energy, health and transport sectors – industries renowned for keeping their activities secret because they store highly sensitive information and are responsible for essential services. Most GDPR investigations have been launched off the back of public complaints.

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UK NIS Regulations impose new cybersecurity obligations (and a new penalties regime) on operators of essential services and digital service providers in the UK

Data Protection Report

These Regulations have received limited press attention, in part due to the emphasis that has been placed on GDPR implementation. Under the NIS Regulations, entities meeting certain threshold conditions in the energy, transport, healthcare, utilities and digital infrastructure sectors will be considered to be operators of essential services.

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

IT Governance

Source (New) Technology USA Yes 204 Ho Chi Minh City Energy Company Source (New) Energy Vietnam Yes 84 Austal USA Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 43 Income Tax Department of India Source (New) Public India Yes 1 Gloucestershire County Council Source (New) Public UK Unknown 1 Daiho Industrial Co.,

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 22 – 28 January 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Legal Canada Yes 1 TB Double Eagle Development Source (New) Real estate USA Yes 904,980 Southern Water Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (New) Utilities UK Yes 750 GB BuidlersTribe Source (New) Professional services Singapore Yes More than 661,000 Dillard’s Inc. According to the resulting report, GDPR: a culture of non-compliance ?,

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5 Major Cybersecurity Trends to Know for 2024

eSecurity Planet

Before companies can effectively and safely use generative AI tools, employees must be educated on utilizing best practices: writing prompts that achieve desired outcomes, keeping data security and privacy in mind when inputting data, identifying the quality and security of AI, verifying AI output, and more,” elaborates Arti Raman, CEO Portal26.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 27 November – 3 December 2023

IT Governance

Other news European Parliament and Council of the European Union reach political agreement on Cyber Resilience Act The European Commission has welcomed the political agreement reached between the European Parliament and the Council of the European Union on the Cyber Resilience Act, which the Commission proposed in 2022.