Security Affairs

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Earlier this year, Indonesia joined the ranks with the first four ASEAN countries including Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and Thailand to have enacted laws relating to personal data protection. The PDP Draft Law is now sitting with the House of Representatives and other concerned government officials. General personal data v.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Germany’s Data Protection Conference (DSK) recently made public an expert opinion on Section 702 of the US Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), which came under close scrutiny in the July 16, 2020 decision of the Court of Justice of the European Union (Schrems II).

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

One of the Government's core objectives throughout the Brexit negotiations has been to respect data protection rights, slash Brussels' red tape and allow the United Kingdom to be a competitive safe haven for businesses all over the world. This is a process that would never end.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In November, we discovered 81 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents, accounting for 223,615,390 breached records. In the meantime, you can find the full list of security incidents below, with those affecting UK organisations listed in bold. Data breaches. Cyber attacks. Ransomware. Financial information. In other news….

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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. It’s simply the case that in the majority of cases, the breached organisation didn’t reveal how much data was compromised, either because it didn’t know or wasn’t obliged to reveal it publicly.

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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. Compromised data includes victims’ names, addresses, phone numbers and Aadhaar numbers (a 12-digit government identification number). Source (New) Non-profit USA Yes 25,908.62

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IT Governance

JUNE 1, 2020

Entertainment law firm GSM&S hacked, exposing celebrities’ personal info (unknown). US Marshals Service says personal data of current and former prisoners was stolen (387,000). Wright County, MN, government notifies those affected by cyber attack (12,320). Data breaches.

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IT Governance

MAY 4, 2021

It was another busy month in the cyber security sector, as we discovered 143 incidents that resulted in 1,098,897,134 breached records. Ransomware was again one of the biggest contributors to that total, accounting for almost one in three data breaches. discloses security incident (unknown) St. Cyber attacks.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The Middle East’s data protection regulatory landscape is complex, and continues to develop with Saudi Arabia’s ( KSA ) newly published Personal Data Protection Law ( PDPL ). While the PDPL contains the main features of a modern data protection law, it cannot be considered a direct analogue of the GDPR.

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Hunton Privacy

JUNE 28, 2016

On June 17, 2016, the National Privacy Commission (the “Commission”) of the Philippines released draft guidelines entitled, Implementing Rules and Regulations of the Data Privacy Act of 2012 (“IRR”), for public consultation. The IRR defines personal data as personal information, sensitive information and privileged information.

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AIIM

APRIL 14, 2020

In one such approach, a multidisciplinary group of computer scientists, mathematicians, and epidemiologists at the Big Data Institute at Oxford University have developed a mathematical model instantiated in a mobile application that traces contact. National Electronic Health Records Database. Big Data Analytics.

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Schneier on Security

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Hearing on "Securing Consumers' Credit Data in the Age of Digital Commerce". Mister Chairman and Members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify today concerning the security of credit data. My name is Bruce Schneier, and I am a security technologist. Before the. Committee on Energy and Commerce.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Data loss refers to the destruction of sensitive information. It’s a specific type of data breach, falling into the ‘availability’ category of data security (the other two categories being ‘confidentiality’ and ‘integrity’). Computer viruses. Reputational damage.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

AUGUST 23, 2021

Instead the PIPL is a robust data privacy framework designed to safeguard individuals’ personal data against abuse, but at the same time to reflect cultural and business attitudes to data in China, as well as new technologies (including advances in AI, biometrics and data analytics), and to enable flows of personal data.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 8 December 2017. The chief executive of the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, Ciaran Martin, has warned senior civil servants about using Russian antivirus (AV) software in government departments. Here are this week’s stories. Including interns on exchange programmes.

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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. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 4 May 2018. Equifax’s huge data breach, which compromised the personal data of 147.9

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 27, 2019

A royal baby, a fire at Notre-Dame, the highest grossing film of all time and more than 12 billion breached data records: 2019 has been quite a year. IT Governance is closing out the year by rounding up 2019’s biggest information security stories. Mumsnet disclosed a data breach affecting 4,000 people. million (£4.2

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Relatively recent advances in technology — smartphones and social media, in particular — have allowed businesses to collect, store, and find ways to monetize far more personal data than ever before. 19 No longer are the proportionality considerations described as separate “limitations” on an inquiry governed solely by relevance.20

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Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

When we do the weekly supermarket shop online, we should be able to move our shopping list electronically. The Bill provides for her to continue to provide independent oversight, supervising our systems of data protection, but we are also significantly enhancing her powers. Perhaps the Government could respond on that point.

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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. through obtaining direct-to-consumer products or fraud alerts from Equifax Canada.

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Hunton Privacy

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

In setting up the registration system for data users, his office focused on major UK data controllers. The system required controllers to complete lengthy questionnaires, reflecting the fact that, at that time, data processing took place on a handful of large mainframe computers. Present Day – 2009 to Today.

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Schneier on Security

APRIL 3, 2020

Over that same period, the company has been exposed for having both lousy privacy and lousy security. In general, Zoom's problems fall into three broad buckets: (1) bad privacy practices, (2) bad security practices, and (3) bad user configurations. Privacy first: Zoom spies on its users for personal profit.

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IT Governance

MARCH 5, 2024

Known data breached Pure Incubation Ventures Source (New) Professional services USA Yes 183,754,481 EasyPark Source 1 ; source 2 ; source 3 (Update) Software Sweden Yes 21,100,000 Cutout.Pro Source (New) Software Hong Kong Yes 19,972,829 Optum Source 1 ; source 2 (New) Healthcare USA Yes 6 TB Kumagai Gumi Group Co., NIST CSF 2.0

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The Texas Record

MAY 7, 2018

We are happy to welcome guest writers from the Texas Department of Information Resources, Daniel Hankins, Shared Services Security Manager and Andy Bennett, Director Information Security Governance. For additional resources from the Texas Department of Information and Resources visit their Information Security page. [1]

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IT Governance

APRIL 29, 2024

Data breached: 4,186,879,104 messages. Keyboard app vulnerabilities reveal keystrokes to network eavesdroppers Security researchers have identified critical security vulnerabilities in Cloud-based pinyin keyboard apps from Baidu, Inc., Honor, Huawei, iFlytek, OPPO, Samsung Electronics, Tencent, Vivo and Xiaomi Technology.

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Data Matters

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Employers and governments have been required to consider privacy in adjusting workplace practices to account for who has a fever and other symptoms, who has traveled where, who has come into contact with whom, and what community members have tested positive or been exposed. Department of Commerce to facilitate data flows to the United States.

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