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Russia-linked APT28 uses COVID-19 lures to deliver Zebrocy malware

Security Affairs

The threat actors used lures consisted of documents about Sinopharm International Corporation, a pharmaceutical company involved in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine and that is currently going through phase three clinical trials. The malware connects to the C2 through HTTP POST requests.

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NHS’ Plans to Share Patient Records with Third Parties

Data Matters

NHS Digital (the national custodian for health and care data in England) in May 2021, announced a new data sharing initiative called the General Practice Data for Planning and Research (GPDPR) service. The Notice further states that the data will never be shared with marketing or insurance companies.

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How your medical data can save lives | Letters

The Guardian Data Protection

It is easy to mistrust big data collection, but for health the benefits are well established Kenan Malik entered an argument with many facets (“ Tell me how you’ll use my medical data. They are a major resource to ensure that pharmaceuticals are used safely and effectively. Only then might I sign up ”, Comment).

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Breaking Down Barriers: Data Quality as a Driver for Pharma Transformation

Reltio

These platforms help manage data quality challenges in real-time ensuring that business users have the accurate, up-to-date information they need for sound decision making. In this blog post, we explore the significance of data quality in the pharmaceutical industry and explain how a modern MDM platform serves to address these challenges.

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Inside the DemandScience by Pure Incubation Data Breach

Troy Hunt

Apparently, before a child reaches the age of 13, advertisers will have gathered more 72 million data points on them. I knew I'd seen a metric about this sometime recently, so I went looking for "7,000", which perfectly illustrates how unaware we are of the extent of data collection on all of us.

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FINLAND: PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW ACT ON THE SECONDARY USE OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE PERSONAL DATA

DLA Piper Privacy Matters

This fragmentation has, unsurprisingly, lead to a heavy administrative burden for the secondary users of social and health care data by parallel and slow licence procedures with various authorities.

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Optimizing clinical trial site performance: A focus on three AI capabilities

IBM Big Data Hub

Despite advancements in the pharmaceutical industry and biomedical research, delivering drugs to market is still a complex process with tremendous opportunity for improvement. The ability to seize these advantages is one way that pharmaceutical companies may be able to gain sizable competitive edge.