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Privacy and Security of Data at Universities

Schneier on Security

Many sets of data, both research and grey, fall outside privacy regulations such as HIPAA, FERPA, and PII. Commercial entities are besieging universities with requests for access to data or for partnerships to mine them.

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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. But how is information governance any different than records management? ” That sounds great! Extra Phases.

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MY TAKE: 3 privacy and security habits each individual has a responsibility to embrace

The Last Watchdog

Related: Long run damage of 35-day government shutdown. This variant of Xbash is equipped to quietly uninstall any one of five popular types of cloud security protection and monitoring products used on such servers. The end game for this particular hacking ring is to install crypto currency mining routines on compromised Linux servers.

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Cryptocurrencies and cybercrime: A critical intermingling

Security Affairs

Indeed, while anonymity provides privacy and security for transactions, it can also be exploited by criminals for illicit activities, such as money laundering , drug trafficking, illegal arms sales, and terrorist financing. Prevention comes through educating users and taking robust security measures to protect their digital assets.

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Here’s why LinkedIn is a ‘gold mine’ for foreign spies digging for corporate and government secrets via CNBC

IG Guru

A great article about how information can be used for nefarious purposes on LinkedIn. The post Here’s why LinkedIn is a ‘gold mine’ for foreign spies digging for corporate and government secrets via CNBC appeared first on IG GURU.

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Weekly podcast: Australian Cabinet Files, Matt Hancock MP’s app and Monero mining

IT Governance

This week, we discuss the Australian government’s loss of thousands of classified documents, DCMS Secretary of State Matt Hancock’s buggy new app and the growing trend of cybercriminals using cryptocurrency miners. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 2 February 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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Cybercriminals Are Targeting AI Conversational Platforms

Security Affairs

Another important aspect is whether the collected user input will be retained for further training and whether such data will later be sanitized to minimize the disclosure of PII (Personally Identifiable Information) and other data that may impact user privacy in the event of a breach.