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Ethical Hacker Who Claimed To Access Trump’s Twitter Account Won’t Be Criminally Charged by Dutch Prosecutor

Posted on December 16, 2020 by Dissent

Robert Hart reports: A hacker who claimed to have logged into President Donald Trump’s Twitter account in October will not be punished because he tried to contact American authorities and report the security breach, a Dutch prosecutor announced Wednesday following a police investigation into the incident by the country’s High Tech Crime Team. Read more on Forbes. My…

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Hackers at center of sprawling spy campaign turned SolarWinds’ dominance against it

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Dissent

Raphael Satter and Christopher Bing have a somewhat mind-boggling update to the SolarWinds hack – a hack that will be remembered as one of the biggest and most concerning hacks of 2020. And it’s only likely to get worse for SolarWinds, whose stock already dropped significantly.  We know that companies can recover from breaches and…

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Court denies bail for two Malaysians facing US cybercrime charges, pending extradition

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Dissent

The Star reports: KUALA LUMPUR (Bernama): Two Malaysian men who are wanted by the US Justice Department for alleged money laundering and cybercrimes in the country will remain in prison until their extradition application is heard by the Sessions Court next week. This followed the decision of the High Court here Tuesday (Dec 15) to…

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Data Protection Commission announces decision in Twitter inquiry

Posted on December 15, 2020 by Dissent

15th December 2020 The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has today announced a conclusion to a GDPR investigation it conducted into Twitter International Company. The DPC’s investigation commenced in January, 2019 following receipt of a breach notification from Twitter and the DPC has found that Twitter infringed Article 33(1) and 33(5) of the GDPR in terms…

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Investigation into Desjardins’ compliance with PIPEDA following a breach of personal information between 2017 and 2019

Posted on December 14, 2020 by Dissent

From the moment it was disclosed, it seemed clear that the  Desjardins breach of 2019 that involved a rogue employee was going to cause big trouble for Desjardins. And sure enough, in one day, they were hit with two potential class action lawsuits. Desjardins subsequently announced they were expanding the mitigation services being offered, but…

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Survey: To Report or Not Report Health Care Data Breaches

Posted on December 11, 2020 by Dissent

To Report or Not Report Health Care Data Breaches December 11, 2020 Amanda Walden, PhD, RHIA, CHDA , Kendall Cortelyou-Ward, PhD , Meghan Hufstader Gabriel, PhD , Alice Noblin, PhD, RHIA, CCS, PMP The American Journal of Managed Care, December 2020, Volume 26, Issue 12 This study presents information regarding the decisions that health care privacy officers make about reporting a data breach, including…

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