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MARCH 20, 2024

government report designed to assess domestic business resilience and the country's collective cybersecurity posture.

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AIIM

JANUARY 2, 2024

The value of information governance is obvious to many business and IT leaders. But like confronting an attic that is full of junk, the task of organizing and governing disorganized data can seem overwhelming.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

China Cites Apple Security Flaws in Warning to Foreign Mobile Device Manufacturers China hasn't ordered any restrictions on the use of Apple iPhones by government agencies, according to a Chinese government spokesperson, but the official cited recent security flaws in the iPhone and warned that foreign mobile device manufacturers must abide by domestic (..)

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

The 38-Member Body Comprises Government, Private, Civil Society Representatives The United Nations unveiled Thursday an AI advisory body that looks to analyze risks and make recommendations on international governance for the technology.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Environmental Protection Agency is investigating claims that a notorious government hacker leaked a trove of contact information from the agency's database of critical infrastructure contractors. Hacker Claims to Leak Trove of Records Belonging to Environmental Protection Agency The U.S.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

The Panelists Also Discuss Improving the User Experience and Verifying Identities In the latest "Proof of Concept," two CyberEd board members, Connecticut state CISO Jeff Brown and Maricopa County CISO Lester Godsey, join ISMG editors to discuss securing digital government services, improving user experiences and balancing user convenience with robust (..)

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

government may have sidestepped a fight with American tech companies by appearing to soften a legislative mandate for chat apps to actively scan for terrorist and child sexual abuse content. Online Safety Bill Close to Passage With 'Accredited Technology' Clause Intact The U.K.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Australian Federal Police, Department of Home Affairs Reportedly Among the Victims An April ransomware attack against one of Australia's largest law firms swept up the data of 65 Australian government agencies, the country's national cybersecurity coordinator said Monday.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Immigration and Customs Enforcement employees had downloaded "risky user-installed mobile applications" onto government devices despite the devices being banned from federal information systems for posing national security risks.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

A series of “intense” cyberattacks hit multiple French government agencies, revealed the prime minister’s office. “Several “intense” cyberattacks targeted multiple French government agencies since Sunday night, as disclosed by the prime minister’s office.” ” reported the French newspaper Le Monde.

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AUGUST 5, 2023

federal government acknowledged that it is lagging behind on border gateway protocol security practices. Officials from several government agencies, ISPs and cloud content providers organized a workshop to understand the latest security improvements underway. Heads of FCC, CISA Call for BGP Overhaul, Industry Collaboration The U.S.

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JULY 26, 2023

Flaw in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile Rated 10 on CVSS Scale A mobile security vendor patched a critically rated zero-day vulnerability in its endpoint management platform that had been used by unknown hackers to attack the Norwegian government. Multiple governments use the platform - the Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile.

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AIIM

MARCH 5, 2024

With AI-centric use cases expanding to extract value from both physical and digital assets, it’s time to see information governance as a way to accelerate innovation.

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JULY 9, 2021

Jim Langevin and many others will discuss the government's top priorities in addressing cybersecurity challenges at ISMG's Virtual Cybersecurity Summit: Government, to be held July 13 and 14. Jim Langevin Among the Featured Speakers Acting CISA Director Brandon Wales, Rep.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 23, 2024

On January 23, 2024, the UK government announced that it published a draft Code of Practice on cybersecurity governance (the “Code”). While it is acknowledged that “there is no one size fits all approach to governing. cyber risk”, there are certain “common fundamental actions” that may be taken.

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JULY 12, 2023

26 Countries Hit by Espionage Group Storm-0558 Through Microsoft Outlook Flaw Security experts say China-based hackers are "leading their peers in the deployment of zero-days" in the wake of another wide-ranging attack that abused a flaw in Microsoft Outlook and used forged authentication tokens to access email accounts of governments in the United (..)

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Weissman's World

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With Information Governance: Great! With Information Governance: Great! But I don’t know that I’ve properly distinguished between the “bad” public technologies and the possible “good” of those installed internally –… Read More » Public AI: Bad. Internal AI: Good. The post Public AI: Bad. Internal AI: Good.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Unexpected Revocation Comes After Years of Tech Industry Criticism The government of India withdrew a long-anticipated personal data protection bill from Parliament. The government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to instead introduce a comprehensive framework of global standard laws including digital privacy laws

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JULY 17, 2023

government says logging was key to spotting it. Monitor Logs to Spot Zero-Day Attack, US Cybersecurity Officials Advise Suspected Chinese hackers gained access to senior U.S. officials' emails by exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft's cloud environment. While Microsoft said customers couldn't have prevented the attack, the U.S.

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AIIM

OCTOBER 24, 2023

AI Governance Resources Patricia C. Franks and Scott Cameron provided this list of helpful resources. Be sure to check out their AIIM blog post about paradata and documenting artificial intelligence (AI) processes.

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Banning Ransom Payments and Unleashing Offensive Hacking Teams Being Mooted With ransomware continuing to fuel a massive surge in illicit profits, some experts have been calling on governments to launch offensive hacking teams to target cybercrime cartels.

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MAY 18, 2022

Ransomware Group Continues to Demand Ransom Payment From Besieged Government Ransomware group Conti, which has been holding to ransom crypto-locked Costa Rican government systems since April, has claimed on its leak site Conti News that it has "insiders" in the country's government, and that they are working toward the compromise of "other systems." (..)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Sponsored by Bytes Software Services; in partnership with CyberArk Government agencies are adopting zero trust architectures, both to meet regulatory

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AUGUST 9, 2022

CSO on How OneTrust's Platform Brings Privacy, Compliance and Governance Together OneTrust has put nearly $1 billion in investment to good use, helping companies address data governance, security assurance, third-party risk and more, Chief Strategy Officer Blake Brannon says.

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National Archives Records Express

APRIL 25, 2024

National Archives Identifier: 6386418 This blog post is the first in a series focusing on specific areas agencies should consider in their transition to fully digital government. Introduction to Fully Digital Government OMB and NARA issued guidance that directed federal agencies to transition to electronic records.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 6, 2024

Back in 2018, we started making Have I Been Pwned domain searches freely available to national government cybersecurity agencies responsible for protecting their nations' online infrastructure. This access now provides them with complete access to the exposure of their government domains in data breaches.

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MAY 17, 2022

Threat Group Seeking to Gain Access to Other Government Systems Ransomware actor Conti, which has been targeting Costa Rican government entities since April 2022, has claimed on its leak site Conti News that it has "insiders" in the country's government, and they are working toward the compromise of "other systems."

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Group Published Ransomware Execution Video on Website A cyberattack that temporarily paralyzed Albania's pivot to digital government likely came from Iranian hackers. The attack occurred just days before members of the Mujahedin-e-Khalq, a group dedicated to overthrow of the Islamic Republic of Iran, were set to host a two-day conference.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

CISA revealed that threat actors breached an unnamed state government organization via an administrator account belonging to a former employee. The government experts conducted an incident response assessment of the state government organization after its documents were posted on the dark web.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Cisco's Peter Romness on Defending the Expanded Attack Surface Post-digital transformation, in a world of hybrid work and multi-cloud environments, government agencies in particular sometimes struggle to detect and respond to threats across the expanded attack surface.

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