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Security Compliance & Data Privacy Regulations

eSecurity Planet

Regulatory compliance and data privacy issues have long been an IT security nightmare. And since the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25, 2018, IT compliance issues have been at the forefront of corporate concerns. GDPR-style data privacy laws came to the U.S. Location Matters.

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Data Privacy threat to Americans from Biden government

CyberSecurity Insiders

In the year 2013, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed to the world that his agency was monitoring every activity of American populace along with some prominent personalities and leaders of the world. The post Data Privacy threat to Americans from Biden government appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Data Privacy and the Cybercrime Economy

SiteLock

For example, in a study just published by Russian security firm Kaspersky , the number two target for phishing attacks around the world in 2013 was the financial community. And it’s that reality that’s going to make ensuring data privacy and preventing security breaches more costly. That’s just where you start.

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3 of the Worst Data Breaches in the World That Could Have Been Prevented

Security Affairs

Eliminating the risk of a data breach is nearly impossible, but some things can be done to reduce it significantly. Here are three of the worst data breaches that could have been avoided: Yahoo. In 2013, Yahoo suffered one of the worst data breaches in history, exposing over 3 billion user accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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EU hits Meta with $1.3 billion fine for transferring European user data to the US

Security Affairs

“This decision is flawed, unjustified and sets a dangerous precedent for the countless other companies transferring data between the EU and U.S.,”. Data Privacy Framework on December 13, 2022. Privacy Shield Framework was designed by the U.S. The EU-U.S.

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MY TAKE: COVID-19’s silver lining could turn out to be more rapid, wide adoption of cyber hygiene

The Last Watchdog

Still, over time, they’ve been woven into baseline data security regulations far and wide. NIST specs are echoed in the data loss disclosure and data privacy laws that have cropped up in many U.S. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 organizations between January 2013 and July 2019.

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Episode 212: China’s Stolen Data Economy (And Why We Should Care)

The Security Ledger

In this episode of the podcast (#212), Brandon Hoffman, the CISO of Intel 471 joins us to discuss that company’s latest report that looks at China’s diversified marketplace for stolen data and stolen identities. Data leaks, data breaches and data dumps are so common these days that they don’t even attract that much attention.

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