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The US government sanctioned four entities and one individual for supporting cyber operations conducted by North Korea

Security Affairs

The US Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced sanctions against four entities and one individual for their role in malicious cyber operations conducted to support the government of North Korea. The sanctioned entities conducted operations to steal funds to support the military strategy of the regime.

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Government By Numbers: Some Interesting Insights

John Battelle's Searchblog

Examples include identity (from driver’s licenses and SSNs to Visa, MasterCard, Amex, and Facebook), delivery of important information and items (from the Post Office to Telcos, Internet, and FedEx and UPS), and protection (outsourcing both prisons and military jobs to private companies). Very interesting.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 450 by Pierluigi Paganini – INTERNATIONAL EDITION

Security Affairs

CISA and ENISA enhance their Cooperation CISA adds Qlik bugs to exploited vulnerabilities catalog Report: 2.6

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Understanding China’s Data Regulatory Regime: What Are Important Data? And Can They Be Transferred Outside Of China?

Data Matters

Once finalized, it will be enacted by the State Council (China’s central government) as an “administrative regulation”, which is subordinate to the national laws (e.g., the CSL, the DSL and the PIPL) but prevails over all other sectorial and local regulations.

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Executive Order on access to Americans’ bulk sensitive data and Attorney General proposed regulations – Part 2

Data Protection Report

The proposed definition of “listed identifier” is Full or truncated government identification or account number (such as a Social Security Number, driver’s license or state identification number, passport number, or Alien Registration Number) [Note that this definition apparently includes truncated Social Security Numbers.]

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Federal Agency Data is Under Siege

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Originally Featured in Global Military Communications Magazine’s June/July Issue. Its unique capabilities include the design and deployment of equipment, systems and services to meet complex security requirements. More so than commercial enterprises, government agencies are making a massive shift to the cloud. The alternative?

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Ransomware Protection in 2021

eSecurity Planet

Only 38% of state and local government employees are trained for ransomware prevention, and only 29% of small businesses have experience with ransomware ( IBM ). Healthcare and financial services are the most attacked industries. We also look into the most dangerous strains today and predictions for 2021. Statistics.