eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Health Insurance Portability & Accountability Act (HIPAA) The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) sets standards for protecting sensitive health information, particularly electronic health records (EHRs). HIPAA also requires organizations to conduct regular risk assessments and report data breaches.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The data is published after Medibank reportedly declines to pay a US$10 million ransom demand.

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Passwords Ransomware Computer and Electronics Access 287

eDiscovery Daily

APRIL 7, 2019

When I spoke at the University of Florida E-Discovery Conference last month, there was a question from the live stream audience about a lawyer’s duty to disclose a data breach within his or her law firm. Janik’s article covers stopping the breach, restoring systems and determination what happened and the cause. No exceptions*.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 10, 2019

Just as the number of data breaches continues to rise, the number of lawsuits over data breaches continues to rise as well. Chances are that your data has been hacked at some point from at least one company with which you do business. But this lawsuit is unique. million US citizens. million US citizens.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Anthem”) following Anthem’s 2015 data breach. That breach, affecting approximately 79 million individuals, was the largest breach of protected health information (“PHI”) in history. prevent unauthorized access to ePHI.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This post summarizes the practical measures that may be adopted to protect your firm against cyberattacks and the keys to successful crisis management in the event that an unauthorized data breach occurs. Even with robust controls in place and extensive precautions taken, an unauthorized data breach may occur.

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Data Matters

DECEMBER 10, 2019

This post summarizes the practical measures that may be adopted to protect your firm against cyberattacks and the keys to successful crisis management in the event that an unauthorized data breach occurs. Even with robust controls in place and extensive precautions taken, an unauthorized data breach may occur.

Data breaches 60

Data breaches Insurance Authentication Risk 60

IT Governance

MAY 3, 2018

This week, we discuss a new deal between the NHS and Microsoft, the financial cost of Equifax’s massive data breach, and a jail sentence for a hacker who altered prison records. Equifax’s huge data breach, which compromised the personal data of 147.9 Fourth of may be with you. Or something like that.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2021

In this article our dedicated data protection team takes a look at the major features of this new law. Credit data access. There are rules around the use of personal data for marketing purposes. What are the steps the organisation will take? Who within your organisation is responsible?

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Personal data Compliance Computer and Electronics IoT 96

Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 4, 2021

We’ll have a separate post looking at the year’s data breaches and cyber attacks in more detail, but in the meantime, you can find the full list of December’s incidents below. Data breaches. Data breaches. That brings the total for 2020 to more than 20 billion. Cyber attacks. Ransomware.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

I am a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, AccessNow, and the Tor Project; and an advisory board member of Electronic Privacy Information Center and VerifiedVoting.org. The security breach was a result of a vulnerability in the software for their websites: a program called Apache Struts.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

More than 770 million people learned their email addresses had been made public in what would be known as the ‘Collection #1’ data breach. Sensitive data belonging to hundreds of German politicians and public figures was published online. Mumsnet disclosed a data breach affecting 4,000 people. million (£4.2

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ARMA International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

This means imagining the “art of the possible” for a new future using a cloud computer model to deliver transformative change. A cloud-first “mind-shift” implies using a cloud computing model, which exposes an organization to risks on the Internet, where data is considered “digital gold” that cyber criminals want to steal.

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Data Protection Report

MAY 15, 2019

In a significant recent decision, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) altered the regulatory landscape when moving personal information between affiliated companies and across Canada’s border for data processing or storage purposes. In September 2017, Equifax Inc., s systems for four months.

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IT Computer and Electronics Cloud Privacy 40

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Change Healthcare says it has notified approximately 100 million Americans that their personal, financial and healthcare records may have been stolen in a February 2024 ransomware attack that caused the largest ever known data breach of protected health information. A breach notification from Change Healthcare.

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IT Governance

JANUARY 30, 2024

At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks. The data is more than mere credentials, too – according to Cybernews, most of the exposed data is sensitive. Data breached: more than 26 billion records.

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Data Privacy Retail Privacy Manufacturing 52

Collibra

MARCH 22, 2022

This was further emphasized at HIMSS 2022 where the spotlight was on the use of cloud computing solutions, artificial intelligence (AI) and the adoption of Fast Health Interoperability (FHIR) to drive transformative changes in healthcare – across telehealth, telemedicine, genomics, precision medicine and value-based care.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 26, 2018

If you doubt it, consider the recent Chubb survey , which found a 930% increase in cyber insurance claims filed by businesses alongside this: 75% of respondents believing that their companies had “excellent” or “good” cybersecurity practices. Businesses need to be great when it comes to breach response times.

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

5,255,944,117 known records breached in 128 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

252,796,762 known records breached in 126 newly disclosed incidents Welcome to this week’s global round-up of the biggest and most interesting news stories. At the end of each month, these incidents – and any others that we find – will be used to inform our monthly analysis of data breaches and cyber attacks.

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