Hunton Privacy

AUGUST 2, 2021

On June 16, 2021, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed HB 5310, An Act Concerning Data Privacy Breaches. requiring “preliminary substitute notice” to individuals if a business cannot provide direct notification within the 60-day notification timeframe. Cybersecurity Safe Harbor (HB 6607).

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Mexico confirms hack of military records (unknown) Randolph-area school district disables its own website following transphobic hack (unknown) Australia’s Telstra hit by data breach, two weeks after attack on Optus (unknown) Patient details compromised in cyber attack on health provider Pinnacle (unknown) CHI Health faces ‘IT security incident’ impacting (..)

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Data Protection Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As Data Protection Report posted on January 29, 2018 , lawmakers in Colorado are considering legislation that, if enacted, would significantly strengthen Colorado’s data privacy protections. On Wednesday, February 14, 2018, an amended bill passed unanimously in Colorado’s House Committee on State, Veterans and Military Affairs.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There were a massive 99 data breaches and cyber attacks in August, making it the third-biggest monthly total of the year by number of security incidents. But, by contrast, only 36,673,575 records were confirmed to have been leaked, which is the fewest we’ve recorded since May 2018. Cyber attacks. Hitachi Chemical Co. Cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

We found a comparatively low 9,780,931 breached records from publicly disclosed security incidents in June 2021. But don’t be fooled by that number – it comes from 106 incidents, which is roughly average for the year. June’s figures bring the annual running total of security incidents to 729 and the total number of breached records to 3,947,030,094.

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ForAllSecure

MAY 17, 2023

Chris Gray of Deep Watch talks about the view from the inside of a virtual SOC, the ability to see threats against a large number of SMB organizations, and the changes to cyber insurance we’re seeing as a result. VAMOSI: Something has changed in the last five years, and demonstrably so. And why is that?

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2022

In the midst of all this, organisations across Europe have reported delays as a result of alleged state-sponsored attacks – including Toyota’s Japanese plants and a kettle manufacturer in the Isle of Man. It will take place on Thursday, 3 March at 3pm, and you can register for on our website.

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eSecurity Planet

MARCH 3, 2023

The initiatives that stand out the most — critical infrastructure security standards, a national data privacy and security law, and liability for security failures — will likely take time and the support of Congress to implement. ” Those fundamental shifts are focused on two core priorities. .”

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Malware has been around for nearly 40 years, longer even than the World Wide Web, but ransomware is a different kind of threat, capable of crippling a company and damaging or destroying its critical data. And the threat is growing. No sector has been spared from its ravages. Ransomware recovery services. Respond fast to new security threats.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 4, 2021

This is a reminder for the automobile industry – and its supporting industries and insurers – to ensure a robust compliance framework to protect that data, and to reconsider processing of such data outside of China. Default or deemed consent is not sufficient; consent must be given by the driver, not the vehicle owner.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 14, 2018

Recently, Colorado’s governor signed into law House Bill 18-1128 “concerning strengthening protections for consumer data privacy” (the “Bill”), which takes effect September 1, 2018.

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IT Governance

APRIL 9, 2024

Other databases contained health insurance data, such as patents’ names, dates of birth, addresses and medical data. Cybernews has now discovered that the company has, once again, exposed highly sensitive children’s data because of configuration errors. The company is yet to comment. EyeCare Services Partners exposes more 3.5

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IT Governance

MARCH 11, 2024

We also found 14 organisations providing a significant update on a previously disclosed incident. Organisation(s) Sector Location Data breached? Source 1 ; source 2 (Update) IT services Taiwan Yes 2,451,197 RMH Franchise Corporation Source (New) Hospitality USA Yes 1.5 TB Paysign, Inc. TB Paysign, Inc.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

Cloud, FL Source (Update) Public USA Yes 719,597 Regulator Marine Inc Source (New) Manufacturing USA Yes 630 GB Risas Dental and Braces Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 618,189 HUB International Source (New) Insurance USA Yes 514,477 Lee University Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Education USA Yes 387.49 Data breached: unknown.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 23, 2024

VF Corporation confirms 35.5 million customers’ data. Data breached: 35,500,000 records. O’Hara & Sons, Inc.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The HSE ultimately enlisted members of the Irish military to bring in laptops and PCs to help restore computer systems by hand. The unusually candid post-mortem found that nearly two months elapsed between the initial intrusion and the launching of the ransomware. By then it was too late.

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Data Protection Report

MARCH 7, 2024

government, including the military and Intelligence Community.” government, including the military and Intelligence Community.” (at The regulation also proposes this chart with respect to risk levels and bulk thresholds: (at 25). What types of data brokerage transactions are in-scope? What about inter-affiliate transactions?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

One of those is Mark Sokolovsky , a 26-year-old Ukrainian man who operated the popular “ Raccoon ” malware-as-a-service offering; Sokolovsky was busted in March after fleeing Ukraine’s mandatory military service orders. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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Collibra

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) came into effect four years after the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was adopted. Despite coming at the heels of the GDPR, the recent California privacy law promptly established and defined its own concepts around consumer-related data. . What is personal information?

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 26, 2024

Additional security layers implement effective controls and assure data confidentiality by adding additional insurance against breaches, zero day vulnerabilities, or tool failure. Perimeter Defense Perimeter defense blocks threats at the network’s edge. Defense in Depth Defense in depth assumes that any single security control may fail.

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Data Matters

APRIL 23, 2018

The hope is that the strategy outlined herein will help corporate directors and executives who support them ( e.g. , legal, information technology security, privacy, compliance, and audit) make practical use of the various technical guidelines available without misaligning their systems from the broader corporate mission. Principle 2.

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ForAllSecure

JANUARY 19, 2022

For example, here’s Jerry Lewis in a scene from a 1950s film, where he’s trying to break into a Nazi German military base. One of the eight required domains in the current CISSP certification process is Identity and Access Management, or IAM. Fact is, we’ve long had passwords as a credential. Lewis: Good. Other: Wait.

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

IT Governance found 73 publicly disclosed security incidents in August 2023, accounting for 79,729,271 breached records. You can find the full list below, divided into four categories: cyber attacks, ransomware, data breaches, and malicious insiders and miscellaneous incidents.

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 3, 2020

The Bill partially exempts entities subject to the Gramm-Leach-Bliley (“GLB”) Act or Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”) from the notification requirements, but requires an entity subject to those laws’ breach notification requirements to also notify the D.C. Regulator Notification. Partial GLB/HIPAA Pre-Emption.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 19, 2021

This very high-profile caper is part of an extended surge of ransomware attacks, which quintupled globally between the first quarter of 2018 and the fourth quarter of 2020, and is expected to rise 20 percent to 40 percent this year, according to insurance giant Aon. The new executive order is a swift response from the administration.

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