The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Local government agencies remain acutely exposed to being hacked. However, at this moment in history, two particularly worrisome types of cyber attacks are cycling up and hitting local government entities hard: ransomware sieges and election tampering. That’s long been true.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Pepsi Bottling Ventures confirmed this week that vast quantities of personal data were stolen in a cyber attack. The nature of the compromised data suggests that it belongs to Pepsi Bottling Ventures employees – if only because you wouldn’t expect a manufacturer to have any significant amounts of data on customers.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2023

It follows a mammoth start to the year, with more than 277 million breached records in January , and brings the running total for the year to over 300 million pieces of compromised personal data. IT Governance is dedicated to helping organisations tackle the threat of cyber crime and other information security weaknesses.

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IT Governance

DECEMBER 1, 2020

million) Phil i ppines COVID-19 track and trace app leaks citizens’ data (unknown) Contractor mistakenly removed data from Hong Kong’s Queen Mary Hospital (442) Cloud Clusters Inc. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in November 2020 – 586 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog.

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IT Governance

JULY 1, 2021

If you find yourself facing a cyber security disaster, IT Governance is here to help. The post List of data breaches and cyber attacks in June 2021 – 9.8 million records breached appeared first on IT Governance UK Blog. discloses ransomware incident (unknown). million drivers’ details (3.3

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IT Governance

JULY 30, 2018

Carvajal, MD Provides Notice to Individuals of Data Security Event. Telefonica breach exposes personal data of ‘millions’ of customers. Sunspire Health patient data at risk from email breach. University of Pittsburgh Medical Center- Cole notifies patients of personal data breach. LabCorp hacked?

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

At Thales eSecurity we are always eager to obtain data on how the world perceives threats to personal data, because it has the potential to inform us on how to make our everyday lives more safe and secure. Together with an independent firm, we recently conducted a survey of 1,000 consumers across the U.S. Across the U.S.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 9, 2021

Siev also couldn’t say exactly what the attackers were looking for or how they were manipulating the devices but did say that generally bad actors target IoT devices to either steal personal information or money like credit card numbers and to manipulate home systems like gates, safes and door locks. IoT a Security Concern. billion in 2018.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Records breached: Unknown, but sensitive personal data was probably breached. BHI Energy Announces Data Breach Affecting Confidential Information of 91k Individuals Date of breach: 29 June 2023 (filed notice with the Attorney General of Maine on 18 October 2023). It’s unclear whether personal data has been breached.

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AIIM

MAY 21, 2020

It is also unique in that it is decentralized, so there is no single authority governing its use. 5 Benefits of Blockchain for Data Management. Given the high number of data breaches in recent years, we all have good reason to be concerned about the misuse of our personal data. Data Sharing.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JULY 13, 2022

It also highlights the need for companies working with the NHS to increase their own familiarisation with, and investment in, secure data environments. Secure data environments are a hot topic in data circles. Fair Terms for Data Partnerships.

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IT Governance

APRIL 3, 2023

Regardless of the specific techniques being used, it’s likely that millions of sensitive data records have been compromised – although few victims have listed specific figures. AT&T AT&T has notified approximately 9 million customers that their personal data has been exposed in a data breach.

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Hunton Privacy

JANUARY 10, 2018

The workshop featured representatives from consumer groups, industry, government and academia. The types of data collected could include aggregate data, non-sensitive personal data and sensitive personal data.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 24, 2023

As global data is predicted to grow by more than 100% from 2022 to 2026, making it a top target for cybercriminals, businesses must prioritize cybersecurity solutions that offer protection without affecting network performance or management. These solutions encrypt data as it moves across networks for maximum security and performance.

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IT Governance

MARCH 1, 2021

million) Serco says ‘no data compromised’ despite hack (0) France’s Dax hospital center targeted by a large-scale cyber attack (unknown) Singaporean telecoms company Singtel suffers cyber attack (unknown) Michigan State Police investigating cyber attack on Saginaw Township schools (unknown). Data breaches.

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IT Governance

MARCH 23, 2023

The supercar manufacturer said that its systems were compromised and that customer data has been stolen. This is the more likely explanation, given that those firms will almost certainly process customers’ personal data, and it would explain why the scale of the breach was relatively small.

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IT Governance

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 12 October. However, it said it had found no evidence that profile data had been misused or that any developer was aware of the bug. This week we discuss the end of Google+, allegations of Chinese motherboard interference, and a £120,000 fine for Heathrow Airport.

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DLA Piper Privacy Matters

JUNE 4, 2021

The Chinese cybersecurity authorities have published new draft rules clarifying data and cyber compliance obligations for the automobile industry, including a push towards most personal information and important data being kept in China. other data that may affect national security and public interests.

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IT Governance

APRIL 20, 2018

This week, we discuss an alert from the NCSC, US DHS and FBI, a £120,000 fine for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, and a data breach at IKEA’s TaskRabbit marketplace. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 20 April 2018. Here are this week’s stories.

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IT Governance

APRIL 25, 2023

Financially motivated malicious insiders Security experts often say that ‘personal data is the new currency’. That’s a slight exaggeration (good luck trying to pay rent with your email address), but the point remains: legitimate organisations and cyber criminals alike are trying to get their hands on personal data.

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Hunton Privacy

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Genetic Data: California Data Breach Notification and Data Security Law Amendment Bill. AB-825 : This bill amends California’s (1) data breach notification law (for both government agencies (Cal. Code Section 1798.82))and (2) data security law (Cal. This bill becomes effective January 1, 2022.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2023

When — not if — this happens, it will have broad implications, both good and bad, for everything from our digital lives and personal data to millions of jobs. This isn’t any different than what happened to American manufacturing, but the effects there were devastating, as secure middle-class prospects for many disappeared.

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Everteam

JULY 11, 2019

The Attackers might use MitM attacks to steal login credentials or personal data and information, spy on the victim, or sabotage communications or corrupt data. These viruses are manufactured with great care to target computers, systems and networks. Everteam Security .

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IT Governance

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 21 September. The Information Commissioner’s Office has fined the credit ratings agency Equifax £500,000 for failing to protect the personal information of up to 15 million UK citizens. Here are this week’s stories.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 10, 2018

billion locals' data. It's operating in an era of increasingly large repositories of personal data held by both private companies and governments alike. Here, Motherboard talks about personal data being sold for less than $10 a pop in a case that sounds eerily similar to the previously mentioned Medicare one.

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

9 million records breached through decade-long data leak A former temporary employee of a subsidiary of NTT West (Nippon Telegraph and Telephone West Corp) illegally accessed about 9 million personal data records over the course of a decade (2013 to 2023). Breached records: more than 56 million.

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IT Governance

JULY 27, 2018

This week we discuss Google Chrome flagging sites that use HTTP as not secure, BA’s GDPR fail, and a massive data breach affecting more than 100 manufacturing companies. Hello and welcome to the IT Governance podcast for Friday, 27 July. Here are this week’s stories.

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IBM Big Data Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Many organizations opt for a private cloud setting to protect sensitive data—a business need that is becoming increasingly important. For example, government agencies frequently choose private cloud settings for workloads that deal with confidential documents, personally identifiable information (PII) or other sensitive data.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 8, 2019

If the upgrade can provide a richer data set to the manufacturer, it’s a double win. Apple, Google, Facebook, IBM, Microsoft, Sony, and virtually every other major technology manufacturer are building their own constellation of products. Online ecosystems of connected devices are not unique to Amazon. In the U.S.,

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Information Matters

DECEMBER 7, 2018

UK consumers threaten data breach backlash – Computer Weekly, 5 December 2018. “Seven out of 10 UK consumers and two-thirds, on average, around the world would stop doing business with a brand that suffers a breach of users’ financial or personal data. Who steals personal data and how do they make money from it?

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Security Affairs

JUNE 1, 2021

Just recently, the group has published a stolen data allegedly belonging to the Mexican Government which still remains available for sale today, and possibly becoming the first cybercriminal group that has touched a major state in Latin America on such a level. Mexican Government data is published for sale.

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IBM Big Data Hub

JULY 11, 2023

Consumer ownership and control over identity and personal data is a key amplifier and enabler of EoT ecosystem value and the unlocking of B2B2C and B2C2B business models and innovation. It may also decide to publish data services in the form of APIs to facilitate third party developer solutions leveraging the EoT data.

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Data Protection Report

JUNE 6, 2019

The new Nevada law also exempts motor vehicle manufacturers or repair services that retrieve information from the motor vehicle “in connection with a technology or service related to the motor vehicle” or provided by a consumer in connection with a subscription or registration for a technology or service related to the vehicle.

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Hunton Privacy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Definition of “publicly available” : Clarifies the meaning of “publicly available” in the definition of “personal information” as follows: “information that is lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records. and the vehicle’s manufacturer. Code § 1798.140(o)(2)).

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Data Protection Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The amendments include the limitation that “personal information” is not “publicly available” if the data was used for a purpose not compatible with the purpose for which the government maintained it has been deleted. Medical staff member. Individual contractor.

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Security Affairs

JULY 22, 2019

New problems for Huawei, t he Czech unit of telecoms giant secretly collected personal data customers, officials and business partners. Huawei made the headlines again, according to the Czech public radio the Czech unit of Chinese telecoms giant secretly collected personal data of customers, officials, and business partners.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The industries with the least awareness were construction (25%) and production and manufacturing (27%). Matt Hancock, the culture secretary, said : We are strengthening the UK’s data protection laws to make them fit for the digital age by giving people more control over their own data.

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