IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

You’ll often see the terms cyber security and information security used interchangeably. In this blog, we explain what information security and cyber security are, the differences between them and how they fit into your data protection practices. What is information security? This is cyber security.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Cybersecurity laws and regulations encompass a range of legal requirements designed to protect information systems and data from cyber threats. These laws aim to establish standards for securing data, ensuring privacy, and mitigating risks associated with digital information. What are Federal Cybersecurity Regulations?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

On 9 September 2024, around 160 officers from various Singapore Police Force units conducted raids across the island, leading to the arrests and the seizure of electronic devices and cash. A third man possessed laptops with unauthorized personal data from foreign sources, and the police seized over S$52,000 in cash.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

The European Union is poised to place more demands on manufacturers to design greater security into their wireless and Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In addition, the amendment also will ensure greater privacy of personal data, prevent financial fraud, and improve resilience in European communications networks, according to EU officials.

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IT Governance

AUGUST 9, 2018

You often see people use the terms ‘ cyber security ’ and ‘ information security ’ interchangeably. Information security. Information is at the heart of any organisation, whether it’s business records, personal data or intellectual property. There are two sub-categories of information security.

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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MAY 31, 2021

Use cases of secure IoT deployment. In our previous blog post , we discussed the challenges for securing IoT deployments, and how businesses and consumers benefit from authenticating and validating IoT software and firmware updates. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 06:55. Use case 1: Fortune 500 Healthcare Company.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 10, 2021

What’s driving the security of IoT? The Urgency for Security in a Connected World. Connectivity enables powerful, revenue-generating capabilities…from data telemetry and runtime analytics, to effectively predicting and maintenance requirements. Device Security is Hard. Guest Blog: TalkingTrust. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 07:39.

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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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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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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Holiday Shopping Readiness: How is Retail Data Security Holding Up? Retailers have been prepping for this season all year and are ready to provide a safe, secure, and seamless customer shopping experience. This includes requirements for secure processing, storage, and transmission of cardholder data. trillion.

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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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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Because the bills were approved on a party-line vote, and several other data breach bills currently are under consideration by other Senate committees, the prospects for these three bills in the full Senate are uncertain. The Personal Data Protection and Breach Accountability Act of 2011 (the “Blumenthal Bill”) is the broadest in scope.

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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

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. In particular we are seeking verifiable measures to prevent the transfer of UK data to the Russian state.”. Here are this week’s stories.

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Hunton Privacy

MARCH 18, 2014

Currently, the CNIL may conduct three types of investigations: On-site inspections – the CNIL may visit a company’s facilities and access anything that stores personal data ( e.g. , servers, computers, applications). On-site inspections currently represent the vast majority of the inspections conducted by the CNIL.

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Cyber Info Veritas

AUGUST 9, 2018

Before we outline the safety hacks, let us briefly discuss why you need to protect yourself from hackers: How Safe Is Your Data: Why You Need To Protect Yourself From Hackers As the internet, computers, and connected devices (smart homes, smart appliances, etc.) Black hat hackers are the bad kind.

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IT Governance

MAY 3, 2018

The introduction of a centralised Windows 10 agreement will ensure a consistent approach to security that also enables the NHS to rapidly modernise its IT infrastructure.”. Equifax’s huge data breach, which compromised the personal data of 147.9 million according to its financial report for the first quarter of 2018.

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Archive Document Data Storage

DECEMBER 7, 2018

It is more important than ever to ensure that your unwanted or duplicate data (both paper and electronic) is securely destroyed. ADDS offers hassle-free shredding solutions to suit your needs: Secure destruction on demand. We supply secure destruction sacks. Ongoing secure destruction. Medical data.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Payment gateway provider Slim CD disclosed a data breach, credit card and personal data of almost 1.7 The electronic payment gateway Slim CD disclosed a data breach following a cyberattack. Personal data and credit card details of 1,693,000 individuals were compromised.

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eDiscovery Daily

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Hackers stole the personal data of 57 million customers and drivers from Uber last year. Conceal the breach for more than a year, and pay the hackers $100,000 to delete the data (sure they did) and keep quiet about the breach. The personal information of about 7 million drivers was accessed as well, including some 600,000 U.S.

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Data Protection Report

DECEMBER 7, 2018

UPMC was filed by a group of employees of the University of Pittsburg Medical Center (“UPMC”), alleging a failure in data security resulted in a data breach and the theft of the personal and financial information of UPMC’s 62,000 employees.

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eDiscovery Daily

JANUARY 9, 2018

Cloud Data is Within Defendant’s Possession, Custody and Control, Court Rules : In Williams v. SUBPOENA OF CLOUD PROVIDER DATA. Is a 30+ year old law sufficient to regulate access of personal data in 2017? Los Alamos National Security, LLC et. Wilkinson, Jr. You decide. WAIVER OF PRIVILEGE.

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CILIP

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Now it’s more likely to be in the form of leading KIM support for public inquiries like Grenfell and Covid, all the while contending with new technology and balancing simultaneous demands for corporate transparency and personal privacy. Regulatory load With burgeoning amounts of information and regulation, is the job getting harder?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The cyber department of Ukraine ‘s Security Service (SSU) dismantled a gang that stole accounts of about 30 million individuals. The cyber department of Ukraine ‘s Security Service (SSU) has taken down a group of hackers that is behind the theft of about 30 million individuals. ” concludes the SSU. .

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Hunton Privacy

APRIL 25, 2012

Scrutiny will focus on the data collection practices of both mobile operators and mobile application providers. The storage of health records using cloud computing solutions will be of particular interest.

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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. social security and credit card numbers, employee and patient health data, and customer financial records).”43

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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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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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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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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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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 18, 2018

More specifically, the DPA will have to cooperate with all other Belgian public and private actors involved in the protection of the rights and freedoms of individuals, particularly regarding the free flow of personal data and customer protection. The DPA will also have to cooperate with other national data protection authorities.

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Data Protector

AUGUST 17, 2020

Some UK organisations will inevitably have to follow all the EU’s data protection rules because they will continue to process the personal data of individuals in the EU. Money spent on improving information security controls is always appropriate – and such expenditure should have been made, regardless of the GDPR.

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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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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Companies that would like to export data to the U.S. or other third countries should also use as guidance the German DPAs’ March 2014 resolutions on “Human Rights and Electronic Communication” and the October 2014 guidelines on “Cloud Computing.”.

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