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

IT Governance

LockBit claims responsibility for Capital Health security incident The LockBit ransomware group has claimed responsibility for an attack on Capital Health , a healthcare provider in Pennington, New Jersey, last November. The group has allegedly exfiltrated more than 10 million files. Data breached: 41,500,000 records.

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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MY TAKE: Why Satya Nadella is wise to align with privacy advocates on regulating facial recognition

The Last Watchdog

We’re just a month and change into the new year, and already there have been two notable developments underscoring the fact that some big privacy and civil liberties questions need to be addressed before continuing the wide-scale deployment of advanced facial recognition systems. Related: Snowden on unrestrained surveillance.

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MY TAKE: 3 privacy and security habits each individual has a responsibility to embrace

The Last Watchdog

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers. Each of us have a responsibility to embrace best privacy and security practices. Targeting one device.

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FTX Collapse Highlights the Cybersecurity Risks of Crypto

eSecurity Planet

From compromised systems integrity and faulty regulatory oversight abroad, to the concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of inexperienced, unsophisticated and potentially compromised individuals, this situation is unprecedented.”. One way is through hijacking computer resources to mine cryptocurrencies. In the U.S.,

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First American Financial Pays Farcical $500K Fine

Krebs on Security

Aside from its core business competency — checking to make sure the property at issue in any real estate transaction is unencumbered by any liens or other legal claims against it — First American basically has one job: Protect the privacy and security of all these documents. “That’s a high-risk vulnerability. .”

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White House Publishes Report on Government Surveillance Programs

Hunton Privacy

The voluminous report, entitled “Liberty and Security in a Changing World,” was authored by The Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies, an advisory panel that includes experts in national security, intelligence gathering and civil liberties. The report begins by describing the varying goals of U.S.