Centraleyes

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verizons Data Breach Investigations Report showed that 74% of security breaches involve a human element, with system administrators and developers accounting for most of these errors. From GDPR updates to sector-specific regulations like HIPAA and PCI DSS, companies will face new mandates to protect sensitive data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 14, 2021

Data Privacy Day (known in Europe as Data Protection Day) is an international event that occurs every year on the 28 th of January. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness about how businesses and individuals can promote the implementation of privacy and data protection best practices. .

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2024

The healthcare industry has had a rough time when it comes to cybersecurity. Over the last few years, the number of data breaches in the healthcare industry has gradually increased. Clearly, there’s still a lot of work to be done to improve cybersecurity measures in healthcare.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 4, 2024

As high-profile data breaches and leaks continue making headlines, a new report from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) examines the triple-whammy of factors enabling this tidal wave of personal data theft. These escalations have made ransomware an even more potent data breach threat.

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Jane Frankland

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

When data breaches escalate, cyber-attacks grow more sophisticated, nation states ramp up their digital warfare, and regulations tighten the noose, staying ahead isnt just an optionits your only line of defence. Still, the top response stood out clearlyprotecting data privacy.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 13, 2024

The ransomware attacks this year on UnitedHealth Group’s Change Healthcare subsidiary, nonprofit organization Ascension, and most recently the National Health Service in England illustrate not only the damage to these organizations’ infrastructure and the personal health data that’s.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 26, 2023

With organizations and practices of all sizes across the healthcare industry adopting more advanced systems , privacy can no longer be an afterthought. This anticipatory approach can significantly enhance data protection in healthcare, where sensitive patient data is constantly collected, stored, and used.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 29, 2019

Our researchers felt that downloading it would be an ethical breach , as they would then illegally own personally identifiable data sets without peoples’ consent. Why This Data Breach is Different. This made us suspect that the database is owned by an insurance, healthcare, or mortgage company. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Reporting data breaches can be a lot like walking on broken egg shells for organizations. On the other hand, publicly admitting to a data breach can create serious blowback on the organization and perhaps damage both reputation and earnings. For the healthcare industry, this became more complicated amidst the pandemic.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Understanding Data Privacy: Keeping Your Data Secure IdentityIQ With the rise of online platforms, social media, and e-commerce, personal information has become more vulnerable to mishandling and exploitation. Data privacy is the cornerstone of helping protect your personal information from unauthorized access or exposure.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 30, 2025

Big themes from the year included rising attacks against healthcare providers and incidents reflecting geopolitical tensions. Februarys Change Healthcare ransomware attack led to 100 million data breach notices being sent. Februarys Change Healthcare ransomware attack led to 100 million data breach notices being sent.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 31, 2021

Organizations around the world must fulfill an increasing number of regulatory requirements including NIST, Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as federal and state data breach laws.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Phishing Attacks: Phishing is the top cyber attack, causing 90% of data breaches. Data Breach Costs: The average global cost of a data breach in 2023 was $4.45 Healthcare Spending: From 2020 to 2025, the healthcare sector plans to spend $125 billion on cyber security to tackle its vulnerability.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Organizations in sectors like healthcare, finance, legal, and government often process vast amounts of highly sensitive data, and regulations exist to ensure and verify that organizations are taking appropriate measures to protect employee, customer, and enterprise data.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The digital age has brought unprecedented opportunities and profound challenges in an increasingly interconnected world, particularly privacy and data protection. In the context of data breaches, class-action lawsuits allow affected individuals to unite against entities responsible for failing to safeguard their personal information.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 20, 2024

Integrating GenAI and LLMs into cybersecurity frameworks requires overcoming complex challenges, such as ensuring the models can handle the nuances of cyber threats, addressing data privacy concerns, adapting to the dynamic nature of the threat landscape, and dealing with inaccuracies and incomplete data sets that may lead to misleading outputs.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 21, 2022

At the same time – in fact, as a direct result of data’s central importance – more adversaries are working harder and finding more nefarious ways to steal or otherwise compromise your data. As just one measure, the number of data breaches in the first nine months of 2021 exceeded all those in 2020, a new record.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2025

Cross-border data transfers enable global business but face challenges from varying cybersecurity laws, increasing risks of cyberattacks and data breaches. Attackers exploit weak links in international data exchange systems to compromise critical infrastructure and access sensitive information.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 31, 2020

Over the years processes, training and tooling to account for data privacy and data integrity have been woven in, driven by data breach lawsuits and the rise of data handling regulations. Keep in mind, software security was an afterthought when legacy software development processes first took shape.

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Centraleyes

DECEMBER 19, 2024

10 NYCRR 405.46: NYs New Hospital Cyber Regulation Hospitals are no strangers to health data privacy laws like HIPAA. They address data privacy and the escalating threat of cyberattacks targeting healthcare institutions. The new healthcare cyber regulations will go into effect in October 2025.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

CISA adds Craft CMS and Palo Alto Networks PAN-OS flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Atlassian fixed critical flaws in Confluence and Crowd Salt Typhoon used custom malware JumbledPath to spy U.S.

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Centraleyes

MARCH 3, 2025

NYC Biometric Identifier Information Law This city-level regulation mandates transparency and disclosure when collecting biometric data, such as fingerprints or facial recognition, for commercial purposes. It introduces more stringent requirements for protecting private information and expands the definition of a data breach.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2024

The ransomware group that attacked a subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group stole massive amounts of customers’ private health care data, the latest in a continuing string of information coming out about the data breach. The post UnitedHealth: Ransomware Attackers Stole Huge Amount of Data appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 6, 2018

Some impact specific countries while others focus on individual industries, but each regulation being enforced is an indication that companies must be more accountable when it comes to how they manage data privacy and people’s data or they risk having to pay large fines. Encryption is key when it comes to protecting data.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 26, 2024

CDK Global, a leading provider of software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions for the automotive industry, recently fell victim to a significant data breach. Data protection regulations – The breach may prompt calls for stricter data protection regulations specific to the automotive industry.

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BH Consulting

MARCH 26, 2025

This focuses on cybersecurity risk management and incident reporting for essential sectors like healthcare and energy. These include the ISO 27001 independent standard for cybersecurity; ISO 27701, which covers privacy, and ISO 42000 which refers to AI governance. However, AI governance remains a challenge.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Private cloud security is thus the application of best practices and controls to protect data in private cloud environments from unwanted access, data breaches, and cyber threats while ensuring the highest standards of data privacy and confidentiality.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 11, 2024

However, industries reliant on shared devices—such as healthcare, retail, and manufacturing—face unique challenges. These fast-paced environments need a more flexible approach to balance security, speed, and user privacy. For example, in healthcare, constant authentication interruptions can impact both patient care and productivity.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 31, 2025

Bloody hell: New York Blood Center Enterprises crippled by ransomware scrotes unknown. The post Ransomware Scum Out For Blood: NYBCe is Latest Victim appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 1, 2021

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )–Today, Skyflow announced Bjorn Ovick, a 20-year veteran of the fintech industry with previous executive roles at RS2, Visa, American Express, and Wells Fargo, has joined the company to lead business development around Skyflow’s data privacy vault for fintech companies. What if Privacy had an API?

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Whether you’re in government contracting, healthcare, or other sectors that handle sensitive data, adhering to NIST Cybersecurity Framework guidelines ensures your business operates within the highest standards of regulatory compliance. Govern: Establish policies and procedures to oversee privacy risk management.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 17, 2024

But there are some key challenges with the current state of identity verification: Centralized data storage. Organizations store vast amounts of data (including identity verification credentials and information) in a centralized space, which can leave them vulnerable to data breaches. Data breaches.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

Pseudonymization is a de-identification process that has gained traction due to the adoption of GDPR, where it is referenced as a security and data protection by design mechanism. The application of pseudonymization to electronic healthcare records aims at preserving the patient's privacy and data confidentiality.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2024

She suggested that the ruling could disrupt critical regulatory frameworks that protect public health, safety, and privacy. RELATED: HHS Mandates Patient Notification After Change Healthcare Data Breach ] With the Chevron Doctrine gone, courts will now have a more prominent role in interpreting cybersecurity regulations.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2023

Various data sovereignty challenges arise for many businesses, such as cross-border data transfers, compliance with differing data protection laws, and protecting sensitive information from unauthorized access.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The CyberNews investigation team discovered an unsecured, publicly accessible Kibana dashboard of an ElasticSearch database containing confidential data belonging to Apodis Pharma , a software company based in France. He writes about cybersecurity, privacy, and the impact of technology on the daily lives of consumers.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The GDPR brings a 21st Century human rights approach to data and cybersecurity. GDPR is the first law of its kind to truly take a crack at protecting an individual’s identity and recognizing that our data privacy is something important that should be guarded. At this point, almost every state has data privacy laws.

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